“Puzzling and mysterious, the Disfarmer photographs, like the Tamba pots and the Lascaux paintings, exist in a unique world of their own definition. Created by forces that extend beyond the scope of a single artist, these works transcend because their authenticity is somehow unconscious; it extends beyond will and beyond ego. Perhaps one way to look at it is that one cannot force great art; it must simply be allowed to happen. While conceding that judgment in art is tautological (a circular argument), still, in these three ambiguous examples of intent in art, we are aware that we are in the presence of art of the very highest spiritual truth.

We know it when we see it.”