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Even highly meaningful objects can melt into abstraction.
Take classic cars. As noted yesterday, they’ve got broad symbolic, not to mention functional, power. But a simple change in perspective—constraining the field of vision, or simply adopting an odd angle—may render them unrecognizable.
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Like driving stick, there’s freedom in that. By taking more deliberate control of your seeing, you can put an object’s established meaning in the rearview.
Written and photographed by Dan Mims.
