Week 8: Do We Have to Change the World?

Fig. 1: Salgado 1944.

After this weeks studies I am left wondering.  Do we have to change the world?  Or can we create beauty just for its existence alone.


I am reminded of this quote in, A Room With A View, by E. M. Forster:

"We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm — yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine" (1955).

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• Figure 1. Sebastiao SALGADO. 1944. V&A [online] Available at: http://www.cornettedesaintcyr.fr/html/fiche.jsp?id=6470554&np=&lng=en&npp=150&ordre=&aff=&r= 
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• FORSTER, E.M. 1955, A room with a view, Penguin, London.