Goldsmiths, University of London

Faculty Member, Visual Cultures

Associate Tutor

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After a series of intellectual misadventures not worth recalling, Mr. Palomar has decided that his chief activity will be looking at things from the outside. A bit nearsighted, absent-minded, introverted, he does not seem to belong temperamentally to that human type generally called an observer. And yet it has always happened that certain things - a stone wall, a seashell, a teapot - present themselves to him as if asking him for minute and prolonged attention: he starts observing them almost unawares and his gaze begins to run over all the details, and is then unable to detach itself. Mr. Palomar has decided that from now on he will redouble his attention: first, by not allowing these things to escape him as they arrive from things; second, to attribute to the observer's operation the importance it deserves.

-Italo Calvino

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