Senses Working Overtime

"To think through things, that is the still life painter's work– and the poet's. Both sorts of artists require a tangible vocabulary, a worldly lexicon."

The quote is from Mark Doty's essay Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, but it could also apply to filmmakers and this polaroid by Andrei Tarkovsky, taken in the early 1980s and published in Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids in 2006. I found it online here, with a sample of others, equally beautiful. They all have the same grainy, still...