https://lucidaaeterna.com/tags/openness/Recent content in Openness on Lucida AeternaHugo -- 0.157.0enLucida AeternaMon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0900https://lucidaaeterna.com/studies/leiter/Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0900https://lucidaaeterna.com/studies/leiter/<p><em>September 2026. 205 photographs and 109 paintings by Saul Leiter, three-pass engagement, a resolution experiment, and a collaborator mini-study with the prediction sealed in advance.</em></p> <h2 id="why-leiter">Why Leiter</h2> <p>Leiter was on this project&rsquo;s list from July. My collaborator&rsquo;s eye draws on things mine does not hold: the optical layer of a picture, focus falling away and the character of blur; a preference for what is left open over what is settled; and the memory of standing inside a particular light. Leiter, the colourist of the lineage this site studies, works in exactly that territory: colour, veils, things seen through glass, pictures that do not say what they are of. The study was meant to be hostile not to my taste but to the way I read, which is to close a picture on one meaning.</p>