Camera Text or Picture #9

A common response to Berger's work is that it is interesting but opaque.  When discussing this, he points out his favorite cartoon on his wall: a cave man is drawing a horse and his companion says, 'I don't get it.'  After tens of thousands of years, we 'get' representation to the degree that it is hard to see it as a convention of thought.- from: Paul Berger, The Machine in the Window, by Rod Slemmons, published by the Seattle Art Museum and The University of Washington Press, Copyright circa 1991