SIBYLLOGY: Life inside the Saussurean Bar.

“I want to tell you something which brought me no small comfort; perhaps this same thought can lessen your grief. When I was returning from Asia, sailing from Aegina toward Megara, I began to look at the regions all around me. Behind me was Aegina, in front was Megara, on the right Piraeus, on the left Corinth. These were once flourishing towns, but now they lay lifeless and ruined before my eyes. I began to think to myself: “Ah! Are we little men, whose lives are necessarily too brief, indignant if one of us dies or is killed, when in one place so many corpses of towns lie abandoned? Please pull yourself together, Servius, and remember that you were born a mortal man.” Believe me, I was strengthened considerably by this thought.” Servius Rufus in a letter to Cicero

The Tipper Truck

This photo series came into existence due to a photography class in the spring term of 2021. In it, the assignment was to take photographs of one particular object (in my case, I picked the Tipper Truck, as you can see), and then over three further rounds of photographing the object, to integrate/use/be challenged by various obstructions.

The obstructions here are “photograph the object indirectly/through another object”, “integrate water into your photograph” and “use a mirror”.

Also, a challenge I inadvertenly assigned myself is that all of these photos were taken with my 105mm macro lense.