A light in which there is no permanence, a light nothing longer than a glimpse. This too is a key to opening the gate. The photos were taken with the panoramic camera, such as is normally used for making wide-section geological surveys. Here the wide-section is important, not, I think, for aesthetic reasons but again for scienti c, observational ones. A lens with narrower focus would not have found what we can now see, and so it would have remained invisible.
Children know it and so do nomads.
Yet neither nomads nor children write such things down. So I have to invent cumbersome phrases which have little to do with boundless land. Not even the dogs can help me. We live our daily lives in a constant exhange with the set of daily appearances surrounding us - often they are very familiar, sometimes they are unexpected and new, but always they confirm us in our lives. What we habitually see confirms us.