“When I was 19, my teacher, Marilyn Frasca talked to me about ‘seeing what’s there.’ Our work was not to like or dislike the image we were looking at, not to try to improve it or understand it. The first thing we need to be able to do is really see what is there.
How do we see what’s there beside good or bad? The word ‘gazing’ comes to mind — a kind of open and sustained looking. A certain feeling comes with it…”
— Lynda Barry (via)