This is not a blog...it's a visual dialogue.
As an artist, I always keep an eye out for images that are interesting and inspiring to me. INNER OPTICS is a place to store and spotlight the art, photography, poetry and music I find.


I may know better a photograph I remember, than a photograph I am looking at, as if direct vision oriented its language wrongly, engaging it in an effort of description which will always miss its point of effect, the punctum. Ultimately – or at the limit – in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. “The necessary condition for an image is sight,” Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: “We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.”
—roland barthe

*“Nature is not something that can be seen by the eye alone- it lies also within the soul, in pictures seen by the inner eye…” Edvard Munch

*That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul. (Wassily Kandinsky)

*"I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction." —Saul Bellow