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One of my favorite things to do on SG is meet amazing artists; like Pulse a brilliant a photographer from Uruguay, which is strangely one of the places I want to go before I die.

Here are two of my favorite pictures of her's:



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Here is why I like them. The first one reminds me of the interconnectedness of the world. If you didn't know what you were looking at you might think it was any number of things, I might be daft, but it reminded me of veins, or arteries in a physiology book.

The second one is my favorite, because of the feet in the lower left corner. The photographer (Pulse, I assume) is standing over her friends and capturing this beautiful, intimate moment, and there in the corner of her frame are feet.

There was a great book by Roland Barthes about photography and he talks about the Studium and Punctum of a photograph, the Studium being the backdrop, the stuff that is happening in the photo, and the Punctum is the thing that catches your eye. When I first saw this photo I couldn't stop looking at the feet. Are they the feet of a voyeur? the feet of a friend? Where have the feet been? I wrote a whole story about the feet in that photo. (It was a horrible story, but it didn't stop me.)

Anyway I just wanted to give a quick shout out to my friend Pulse, who is, and will always be my favorite photographer on this site for the simple reasons that she is a genius and she said thank you when I told her how much I loved one of hezza's sets. Thank you's go a long way.