As the critic Holland Cotter writes, “From a digital distance, you see an image. In person, in a gallery, you feel that image breathing.” This state of reverie is the opposite of the efficiency and instant review common to our digital age. It is a state of pleasant, almost dreamlike calm, which is why when we describe it to others, we often say we felt “lost” in reverie. What we have lost is the hurried, anxious sense of time passing quickly. It is why great poetry, music, and art are sometimes described as evoking a state of reverie; they leave the viewer and listener with a sense that time
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