This journal records my actual 10,000 hour apprenticeship mastering the art of photography through deliberate practice. Specifically:
- activity as it is done
- feedback received
- thoughts that might, or might not, later form a full post
(Hour at start of month 10,735)
2nd May 2026
Hours 10,737 to 10,73
(½h) updating this journal
1st May 2026
Hours 10,735 to 10,736
(1h) updating this journal: new month admin, and revisiting my 2021 post “Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida” in the context of having recently spent a good deal of time studying Jacques Lacan, Alexandre Kojève, et al. I wrote the post I didn’t pick up on any direct influence although Barthes and Lacan were both French intellectuals and the former would certainly have studied the latter, the overlap is more the Structuralist concepts of the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure from which Barthes developed a framework for art, and Lacan a model of thought
(1h) creating the above version of “Double Abstract II”, which I was encouraged to persist with at the last colour group meeting
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