View through the lens

optical unconscious

      aesthetic of trace

      permanently retentive

notion of the dream

a disproportionate significance

      incomprehensible exterior within –

      without the self’s mediation

ambiguous relation

self and other

      emotional weight

      otherwise lies dormant

photographic exposure

temporal displacement

      accidental impressions

      liable to be dreamed

in distorted ways

summoning notions of memory

      impressions into traces of the interior path

      image sensible of what can remain outside

a thought unthought, unintended,

without within

      the darkness

      latent embrace

hidden parts of self

the whole of who the self is (1)