Summer edition, issue 009
Hello and welcome. I’m Tom Price, a photographer based in London. Welcome to Frames, my digital postcard project. You can read the introduction here and sign up to get them in your inbox, twice a month.
“Things have a life of their own,” the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”
- Melquíades, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
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In this time of coronavirus, magical thinking has taken some flack.
And with good reason. When leaders like Donald Trump flippantly quip that the virus will:
“disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
Or worse — encourage people to try out disinfectant as a potential cure — it gives imagination a bad name.
This recourse to the superstitious to coerce, mislead and sow false hope, is a cheap betrayal of reality.
As an antidote to this, the realm of science and experimentation acts as our clearest eyes…
