Victor Cova introduces a 1941 exchange between Claude Lévi-Strauss and André Breton.

“I'll begin with setting up the image…” Greg Gerke reflects on a shot in Carlos Reygadas’s Japón

As the artist, reaching deep into nothing, with nothing, and only for the sake of desire, creates something great, far beyond the imagined object of desire, fulfilling and exceeding every wish in a way which could never have been fully anticipated, so too does the lover encounter the beloved.