Aura, Spirit

(In which I stretch out metaphors to mostly introspect. It’s a ramble.) I love that James, in his studies, is encountering and reckoning with the idea of “aura” (The aura of zines). James cites The Tate Modern definition of “aura”: Aura is a quality integral to an artwork that cannot be communicated through mechanical reproduction techniques – such as photography. It’s a topic I think I only encountered by that name in writings by Tracy Durnell. Authenticating digital works without ‘detectors’ and Digital aura and the source of Truth are two that have stayed with me. They stuck not because they provided hard-and-clear rules around what does or do not have aura, but they have helped me evaluate works in different ways along the axis of the unknown. My first career was scientific. I thought of it as scientific. I worked in hospitals as a respiratory therapist. I saw life and death, and those profound moments of new life and death were banal. I didn’t like that in those critical moments…

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