Someone reading over my statement questioned my use of the word 'impressionism'. To me it has always meant for example a tree momentarily shimmering in brilliant sun or the same tree drenched half hidden by a passing storm; painted, etched or photographed under such conditions— the transitory instead of the eternal. But I don't want the play of sunlight to excite the fancy, nor the mystery of gloom to invoke the imagination— wearing coloured glasses— I want the greater mystery of things revealed more clearly than the eyes see, at least more than the layman, the casual observer notes. I would have a microscope, shall have one some day.