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Copy or Emanation: When Images Breathe into Us

Not every image is born the same. Some arrive as duplications, calculated replicas of something already seen, already known. Others, however, seem to come from within. They do not copy; they emanate. The difference between one and the other lies not only in the technique, the medium, or the origin. It is, above all, in the relationship established with the viewer. A copy repeats; an emanation spreads. The first serves recognition; the second, presence. We may not always know how to name it, but

Copy or Emanation: When Images Breathe into Us

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