"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two and so on. Eventually one discovers that it's not boring at all."*
Take a look at the picture above** and see what you can see in thirty-two seconds. Do you see the moon?
*John Cage, Four Statements on the Dance, 1944, Cited in my exciting new book Ways of Looking by Ossian Ward.
**Portion of mural, lower level of the World Food Prize Building, Des Moines, IA.
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