La Raya, Peru 1974

Ed Grazda made this photograph, La Raya, Peru, sometime in the twentieth century. It's a simple black and white photograph, but it tells such a story. You can see that it's come into being, captured just at the right moment. I sympathize with Grazda. I can imagine what it might have been like to wait for the exact moment, when a person runs with flowers, in front of the church. What was he thinking when he made it? And what was the person thinking when he ran with flowers? This photograph feels very physical, like you can feel the man running. Look how it shapes our experience and contributes to the emotional resonances of the work. The flowers in the man's arms communicate feeling, intention, and meaning. Painters and photographers are in an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas across time, inspiring one another’s creativity. This photograph feels like an embodied expression which embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations and meaning over fixed or definitive readings.