Zoom Test, 5:26
(S)omeone took this video while testing their camera’s zoom lens from a window several stories above ground level. The lens chances upon a hooded man paging slowly through an erotic magazine of thin-hipped large butted ambiguously-raced women. A man reads aloud from spiritual teacher Jiddu Krishnamurti’s Freedom From the Known (1969). The passage begins: In all of our relationships, each one of us builds an image about the other and these two images have relationship. The actual relationship between two human beings or between many human beings completely ends when there is the formation of images.
— Ariel Evans, Research Fellow in contemporary art in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department at The University of Texas at Austin
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