"Surrealists could distort photography’s “mechanical trace” of the extant and “convulse reality from within.” Photographs impose presence, while the Surrealist object also imposes its absence"

I’m less interested in the imagined once-upon-a-time life of a glove than this implies. I am not a writer of fiction, and I’ve never cared to speculate where the lone man at the bar is going, has been; what designed his taste or choice of button-down.