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Some people dislike diagnoses, disagreeably calling them boxes and labels, but I’ve always found comfort in preexisting conditions; I like to know that I’m not pioneering an inexplicable experience.
A diagnosis is comforting because it provides a framework—a community, a lineage—and, if luck is afoot, a treatment or cure.
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability.” To take a photograph, in other words, is to participate in one’s own reality, to be a true member of the world of things.
The individual, after all, was flesh and blood. It’s the art that’s immortal.
