Things and not-things

Closeness is important for writing. What kind of closeness? I have to feel like I’m looking at something in order to write about it, which I believe is often why I write about the things I am looking at. What is this closeness you have when you look at something? ? Seeing something is to experience the truth of there being nothing between you and the thing you are seeing. Maybe not nothing at all, but where something would prevent you from seeing what you’re seeing, there is nothing. It’s nice to think of emptiness as the space occupied by sight. Sometimes seeing has the felt experience of that particular nothing that allows it to take place, but often it doesn’t. I only experience the nothing when seeing is incredible, when I am seeing something incredible. In looking at a striking thing, there is a wonderment about the sight of it being there at all. A “how could it be?” kind of feeling. Seeing something incredible is to feel that the sight at hand has been exposed, or even that it h...