Method for understanding images, symbols, etc. Not to try to interpret them, but to look at them till the light suddenly dawns.
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
1. The Moon
Composite image based on Clementine data, 1994
Credit: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech
2. Colorful Moon
Galileo false-color composite, 1992
Credit: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech, 1992
3. Peplos Kore, ca. 530 BCE.
Photo: Marsyas, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5.
4. Peplos Kore (AI-assisted polychromy reconstruction)
5. Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis, ed. Jacques-Alain Miller, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1978), 103.
6. Staff Sgt. Kristen Pittman, “Green phosphor night vision goggles,” U.S. Air Force Reserve Command,
7. Thomas Ruff Night 6 III, 1992
Städel Museum, Online Collection
8. Alec Komaroff, Flickering, Exhibition view, MUZE’UM Light & Landscape, Roeselare, BE, 2025
9. Jacques Lacan, diagram of geometral optics, in The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
10. Moon – North Polar Mosaic, Color, 1998
Credit: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech
11. Aleс Komaroff, Flickering, Exhibition view, MUZE’UM Light & Landscape, Roeselare, BE, 2025
12. Aleс Komaroff, from the series Flickering, 2023-25
13. William Henry Fox Talbot, Camera Obscura, 1840