Dog is my favorite color

“ And no less universal is the pleasure felt in things imitated.
We have evidence of this in the facts of experience.
Objects which in themselves we view with pain, we delight to contemplate
when reproduced with minute fidelity: such as the forms
of the most ignoble animals and of dead bodies. ”

Aristotle – Poetics – 335 BCE

“ For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result
of a perverse confusion between two concepts:
the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object has been real,
the photograph Surreptitiously induces belief that it is alive,
because of that delusion which makes us attribute to Reahty
an absolutely superior, somehow eternal value;
but by shifting this reality to the past ("this-has-been"),
the photograph suggests that it is already dead.
Hence it would be better to say that Photography's inimitable
feature (its noeme) is that someone has seen the referent
(even if it is a matter of objects) in flesh and blood… ”

Rolland Barthes – Camera lucida – 1980

“ Immobilized at the distorted center of the movement of its world,
the consciousness of the spectator can have no sense
of an individual life moving toward self­ realization, or toward death.
Someone who has given up the idea of living life
will surely never be able to embrace death. ”

Guy Debord – The Society of the Spectacle – 1967

“ The Painter: What is more simple than a tree?
Yet when I paint a tree, I make everyone uncomfortable.
[...]
I paint, despite myself, those things hidden behind things!...
A swimmer, to me, is already a drowned man... ”

Marcel Carné, Jacques Prévert – Port of Shadows – 1938

A, black velvety jacket of brilliant flies
Which buzz around cruel smells,

Gulfs of shadow;

Arthur Rimbaud – Vowels – 1883

Original soundtrack by Raoul Le Pennec, composed for Hagard.