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[In this world,] the passage of time brings increasing order. Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.

• Alan Lightman, from Einstein’s Dreams, (11 May 1905)

Ring around the rosy,
Pocket full of posy,
Ashes! Ashes!
We all fall down!

• Mother Goose, children’s rhyme

The still life is the antithesis of photography’s purpose. Photography is a medium with a DNA that is so engrained in time, action …