I've been here for afew months now after initially only being drawn to explore online arts spaces as a way of more or less representing my images back to myself - a kind of digital vault where I could view my creations in an altered context.
I'd read TJ Clark's book, The Sight of Death, all about the values of looking at art - the paintings of Poussin specifically, face to face, paying attention to the intimate nuances of how display alters the way we see stuff ... What I found particularly fascinating was how the book repeated close up details of Poussin's work, almost as if the layout was a parallel essay on the possibilities of looking th