“WE SEE SPACE.” Here is a description of an earlier exhibition of David Hockney’s studies of the landscape in East Yorkshire. I like Hockney’s statement that: “The optical projective of nature is a view of the world from one point. It is not a human view. The camera sees surfaces, we see space.”
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