Nouns… People, Places, and things.
Here’s the thing… While any object, or concept, can be generalized as a thing, this historically wasn’t always the case.
The original meaning of thing was much more specific and significant.
Our Norse ancestors introduced the word Þing to Old English; meaning an assembly where laws and other weighty matters were discussed and debated.
Eventually the issues of importance to people and society became the thing.
As author Susan Sontag wrote:
‘All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability… All photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.’
