The article includes a fascinating sidetrip into the theories of Gregory Bateson's father, biologist William Bateson. The most significant aspect of Collected Visions is the ability to submit images to a growing archive of family photographs and create photo stories. You can search and view images from the on-line database of more than 1200 images and then create and submit live photographic essays exploring the power of family snapshots. Changing exhibitions of selected submitted essays are presented in the Collected Visions Gallery and then archived in the Collected Visions Museum . Failure is the measure of the wager.
Exhilaration is the promise of depression.
Poetry is denied by displacement. Rimbaud's greatness is having led poetry to its own failure. Poetry is not a knowledge of one's self. I only identify what I am by what I am not. I am not a poet, painter, essayist, cartoonist, folk artist, novelist, philosopher, or sage.