inexplicables & soudains - Igor Savchenko

@Igor Savchenko - from "Mysteries" series, 1990

ON THE ALTERED BEHAVIOUR OF SUNLIGHT

We no longer have

A constant flow of sunlight.

Light appears to us

As a sequence of transient storms.

Everything around us is lit up for brief instants.

The world picture shimmers.

But moments of light and darkness

Still alternate too fast,

For us to notice them.

We still believe

The visible picture is steady.

In fact the storms of sunlight

Blow past more rarely and less regularly.

Darkness has been gathering.

Uncertainty keeps growing.

The visual picture

Is gradually being replaced

By its speculative model.

But this we can only guess at

From indirect signs -

Inexplicable and sudden failures

While photographing the moments which

Miss just another sunlight storm.

We ourselves fail to notice that

Our perception of the world is changing.

We ourselves are changing.

The consequences are not yet clear.

Igor Savchenko - 1996

traduction Mark Bence

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