I'd spent the day at the atelier of a lady called Inge Dicke. While she still could, she used to make 1 x 2 m Polaroids. The camera she used then was a walk-in room. Now she can only do them with a 20 x 24 inch Polaroid camera.

The only thing she has ever photographed is the light as it shines on an unfocussed surface. She has photographed this hundreds and hundreds of times at different intervals on different days. The coloured surfaces she produces are smooth, shiny and beautiful. For me, they don't look like the colours of light but like the pure, intense, liquid colours of Polaroid film: colours that don't have names and which don't exist anywhere else. I don't know if she agreed with me on this.

This was the view from her window as the sun went down behind the clouds.

The calmness of this picture nearly drives me nuts. But then, so does imagining photographing the same unfocussed surface for 40 years solid.

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