The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other. this scene has all the magnificence of an accident: I cannot get over having had this good fortune: to meet what matches my desire. The scene is perfectly adapted to this temporal phenomenon: distinct, abrupt, framed, it is already a memory (the nature of a photograph is not to represent but to memorialize). Love at first sight is always spoken in the past tense. The context is the constellation of elements, harmoniously arranged that encompass the experience of the amorous subject.
For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what had not yet ever been seen is devoured by the eyes: the scene consecrates the object I am going to love. “You see the first thing we love is a scene.
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