Camera Obscura

Finally got the reserved book 'Camera Obscura' by Abelardo Morell.

Quoting from the forward by Luc Sante - "The outside comes inside, unaltered and unabridged but wrenched out of context by the apparently simple matter of being turned upside down"

There defines the relevance and the different to my current process; I create or take and image, alter, cut down and bastardize an object with it - giving my own context.
I'm slightly worried that I have too much control, that my context is inferior to one that say, I get from a source directly relevant - like (this is just an example) a daytime pinhole image from directly opposite the projection.  I can't imagine the composite image would be interesting or effective in saying anything but I'm keeping my mind open to a more 'natural' process, one that keeps some kind of authenticity, away from computers and especially my input of context - just carrying out a process which defines the context.

I often think this is form a vandalism, even if the projection only lasts 1/10,000 of a second - Even if I just used a constant light source I'm sure I'd get asked to stop in some cases.  For a more extreme case see the projection of Gail Porter on the houses of parliament! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/341052.stm

"No light can survive the passage to the retina without exchanging some of its baggage" - Luc Sante talks on even the purest, simplest and 'as unmediated capture of light can be' - is still altered, so what of the process light goes through to be perceived to our eye?  Previous projects I've undertaken have been about the problems of perception - now I should be able to exploit them.