An image can be beautiful without repairing what it shows.
Peeling paint, concrete, skin, rain, smoke: materials retain events they do not narrate. Their beauty sometimes comes precisely from this resistance to narrative.
I look at images as remains. They prove nothing on their own, but they preserve a tension, a before and an after, a presence that cannot be fully translated.
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← INCURSIONSBeauty does not erase the shock. Sometimes it gives it duration.