A photo of a nice and really heart-touching sculpture at the museum of contemporary art in Italy.

I gave up photography because photographers no longer have any freedom or control. If you are hired or want to photograph anyone famous you are employed as a technician. Managers, publicity people, agents control what you do, own what you produce, then hand it over to people at keyboards who enhance and manipulate. Photography has become a tool of brand management.

I wrote earlier this season about how I’m probably Failing Lent. I hinted there that I’d write more about my lack of enthusiasm for this season, and so

“The sadness of the past is with me always.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald to Zelda Fitzgerald.