Sarah Carter Instagram – Goodnight moon 🌚
I wish I had the words to describe how special it was to share watching the moon pass the sun with so much of the world today… even the birds quieted.
It’s concerning to me how many of us tried to capture the sight on our phones rather than soak the changing light fully into our cells. I did both. I watched through my camera then followed the impulse to lay on my back and close my eyes.
“We have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp… the ultimate mystery of Life itself.” Rachel Carson
— In our compulsively visual culture, which increasingly reduces what we think and feel and see — who and what we are — to what can be photographed. I think of Susan Sontag, who called it “aesthetic consumerism” half a century before Instagram. In a small act of resistance, I offer The Unphotographable — a lovely image in words drawn from centuries of literature: passages transcendent and transportive, depicting landscapes and experiences radiant with beauty and feeling beyond what a visual image could convey.” @mariapopova 🕳️ | Posted on 09/Apr/2024 10:12:44
