A Closer Look

Get close to something—close enough so that what you're looking at loses its shape. It morphs into a different configuration. It stands alone and complete in that new posture with a set of different features.

The flower was beautiful. These petals maintain their own sense of being complete. I stare at the lines, the way they intersect, their flow. I look at the folds.

When looking intimately at something I slow down and see anew.