Freshly.
I'm most concerned with consensual reality; it's what you get from photography and literature when it's somewhat visually oriented; painting is. You realize it back when Erik Erikson said, "Reality is mankind's greatest illusion." So what you get from good photography or a good painter is, you remove habitual and conditioned responses from reality, and then you get to see it again. Ordinary mortals, like nearly all of us, don't get to see it again except under special circumstances. The light, if they get up on first light in summer or last light, then something changes about it, and they see it again freshly.
Jim Harrison
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