James Krasner
“I took this photo on the beach in Provincetown, Mass., early one morning. 一只城市狐狸小跑着穿过一个甲板,那里有一位当地画家在展示他们的艺术作品. Recently, 我一直在研究建筑理论家Juhani Pallasmaa所说的“大气感知”的重要性.’ Critiquing the ocularcentric bias of Western architecture, Pallasmaa认为美学不强调聚焦的视觉,而强调周边和多感官的感知. “聚焦视觉让我们面对世界,而周边视觉则把我们包裹在世界的肉体中。.’ Here, 狐狸和画都位于视野的边缘, 让眼睛很难集中注意力,强调木制甲板和下面的沙子的纹理. Rather than a singular focus, the painting is part of a landscape of natural, animal and human forms; what Pallasmaa calls ‘the flesh of the world.’ It is easy for us, as academics, 集中注意力,不受外界感觉的影响, 甚至是大学里盛行的许多其他理解模式. 我试着注意更多的周边狐狸,甚至是那些长着疥癣的狐狸.”
—James Krasner, Professor of English