Stephen Downes

I take photographs of light, not objects. Carlo Iacono does some brilliant work with light in this post. The gist: "The warmth of sunlight on skin, the weight of grief in the chest, the expansion of joy that seems to push against the boundaries of the body: these are not metaphors for 'real' knowledge. They are knowledge itself... ambiguity is not failure; it is often the only honest response to the complexity of experience. When we demand that everything be made clear, we don't achieve greater understanding."