“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.”
– John Berger
The average human blinks between 15 and 20 times each minute. Each blink lasts around 300 milliseconds, which means you spend almost one-tenth of your waking hours in darkness. And yet, if you were asked what you saw in those m...
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