Arnaud Claass continues his reflections on the art of observing, submitting the exercise of looking to the test of words, commenting on everyday perceptions while also confronting historical and contemporary works. For photographers, true visual and mental availability to the ceaseless flow of appearances is a form of fervour; for the viewer of images it means looking with the same intensity, listening to oneself at the deepest level. In his Cartier-Bressonian Meditations he revisits the influence the French photographer exerted on him in youth and his undimmed but closely examined admiration, questioning received ideas about this founding body of work.