Seeing the Unknowable
The subheading for Christopher Knight’s review of the David Hockney retrospective at MOCA (“Peering Beyond the Edge,” July 24) says it all: “Hockney’s photos give visibility to the unseen.”
Obviously, Hockney was fascinated with what he didn’t photograph, which, of course, is why he photographed it. What’s more, I’ve found that in viewing Hockney’s works, it is the unknowing, unseeing part of me that views best what is not there.
It is reviews like Knight’s that take one’s appreciation of art to the deepest and darkest of depths.
BOB WARNER
Altadena
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