{"id":1838,"date":"2024-01-29T17:28:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T22:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lruss.com\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2024-02-27T09:35:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T14:35:42","slug":"no-no-arcane-doesnt-mean-anything-like-archaic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawrenceruss.com\/no-no-arcane-doesnt-mean-anything-like-archaic\/","title":{"rendered":"No, No, &#8220;Arcane&#8221; Doesn&#8217;t Mean Anything Like &#8220;Archaic&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lawrenceruss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/choice_2024_digitalpostcard34.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/lawrenceruss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/choice_2024_digitalpostcard34.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1841 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 2592px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 2592\/2592;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lawrenceruss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/choice_2024_digitalpostcard34.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1841\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I&#8217;ve already written and published on this blog, on October 19, 2014, a post about the portfolio that includes this image &#8212; shortly after I self-published a book of the photos in that series:\u2003<a href=\"https:\/\/lruss.com\/2014\/10\/19\/the-arcane-machine-new-book-of-photographs-by-l-russ\/\">https:\/\/lruss.com\/2014\/10\/19\/the-arcane-machine-new-book-of-photographs-by-l-russ\/<\/a>\u2002What is kinda funny to me is that after naming that book with what was then the name of the series, &#8220;The Arcane Machine,&#8221; I felt forced to change the portfolio&#8217;s name, because I could tell from people&#8217;s responses that many of them mistakenly thought that &#8220;arcane&#8221; meant something like &#8220;archaic.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t help but feel that when a reviewer from a certain international online photography magazine commented that I shouldn&#8217;t be writing the way that I was about the portfolio,\u2002but should just be happy to have made an old rusty machine look beautiful,\u2002he was being unduly (and maddeningly) influenced by his misunderstanding of the word &#8220;arcane.&#8221;\u2002&#8221;Archaic&#8221; means &#8220;very old or old-fashioned,&#8221; but &#8220;arcane&#8221; means &#8212; and I meant &#8212; something quite different:\u2002&#8221;mysterious, requiring secret knowledge to understand,\u2002secret, magical.&#8221;\u2002Which will tell you why I changed the name of the portfolio and images to &#8220;The Machine of Secrets,&#8221; and called each individual image a &#8220;Verse.&#8221;\u2002As I&#8217;ve said in an artist statement about the collection:\u2002It&#8217;s not about mechanics, but rather poetry.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I am happy to say, though, that any misunderstanding of my naming or intent hasn&#8217;t seemed to impede the positive responses to the photographs:\u2002Groups of works from the series (that included this one, Verse 14) have received an Honorable Mention from the International Photography Awards, a Prize Nomination from the international Fine Art Photography Awards, and individual &#8220;Verses&#8221; have been chosen for exhibition or publication by the Great Britain Museum of American Art, Darkroom Gallery,\u2002Praxis Gallery, the A Smith Gallery, <em>Shadow &amp; Light Magazine<\/em>, and Black Box Gallery. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I hope that the nature and quality of my work, including the images in <em>The Machine of Secrets<\/em>, entitle me to consider myself a poet still.\u2002My joyful knowledge of that art and fervent work to make poems informed my photography from its start, and, as I&#8217;ve written many times, I join Ernst Haas in saying that what is most important to me in this other, newer, visual art is &#8220;the poetic element.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already written and published on this blog, on October 19, 2014, a post about the portfolio that includes this image &#8212; shortly after I self-published a book of the photos in that series: . . . 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