Fieldnotes Quotes

“I then tell myself that the result is pitiful but the struggle worth it because I looked at color and I looked at the night and the river like I never had before and saw what I take so for granted with new eyes. Is there any activity that so rewards failure? These are toads that become flowers.”
― Michael Taussig, I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own