Transparency
"What maybe we all need, sometimes, is to stop talking. To stand in the middle of a feeling and not compose 140 characters, or 612 pixels. To not translate, or to translate later. To translate less.
Walter Benjamin wrote that the best translation is the most transparent, the sparest; it “does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language... to shine even more fully on the original.” You know, like the crack in everything of which Leonard Cohen sings, or the Sontagian “luminousness of the thing itself, of things being what they are.”
That's what I want, for things to be what they are."
Sarah Nicole Prickett, TRANSPARENCY IS THE NEW TRUTH
Walter Benjamin wrote that the best translation is the most transparent, the sparest; it “does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language... to shine even more fully on the original.” You know, like the crack in everything of which Leonard Cohen sings, or the Sontagian “luminousness of the thing itself, of things being what they are.”
That's what I want, for things to be what they are."
Sarah Nicole Prickett, TRANSPARENCY IS THE NEW TRUTH