I Like It (vs.) I Like Its Surprise

The essential thing in form is to be free in whatever form is used. A free form does not assure freedom.

 - Wallace Stevens

(though I read it quoted by Louis Zukofsky 

in his gregarious and lacerating Prepositions,

read it two minutes ago, sitting in a recliner; 

I underlined it with a red, fine-point marker)

 * * *

 About making work, I remind myself:

Unpredictability & visual surprise does not make a photograph good;
it makes it unpredictable & visually-surprising.