Unlearning light
Chowpatty beach, Mumbai, in the flaring uneasy noon of a Sunday
. A constricted aperture can do what the eye cannot: ignore the flooding of light around you, the ravaging of every shape with intense energy, and wavelets bouncing off every contour, holding form and relief hostage. But with the ability to shut itself out of all that orgiastic frenzy of solar energy and incidence and reflection, all of it but for a tiny aperture, just enough for the gravity of form and the intensest blaze to enter, you have this, which I like. My camera has taught my mind to see by unlearning light. 
. A constricted aperture can do what the eye cannot: ignore the flooding of light around you, the ravaging of every shape with intense energy, and wavelets bouncing off every contour, holding form and relief hostage. But with the ability to shut itself out of all that orgiastic frenzy of solar energy and incidence and reflection, all of it but for a tiny aperture, just enough for the gravity of form and the intensest blaze to enter, you have this, which I like. My camera has taught my mind to see by unlearning light. 
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