Dorky on Dorsky

My thoughts after viewing Nathaniel Dorsky's Variations were a series of words. I will share them: reflections, shadows, dual images, relationships. These words aren't at all what I wish to convey, but they're a good start.
Dorsky's "sacred speed" is exactly it, the speed of reflection, meditation, and intentional almost adoration of subject. Dorsky gave us a chance to see the building blocks under a microscope. I felt that I really had a chance, being that the film was slowed, to sit on the image and take in what he (Nathaniel) was feeling at that moment AND what the subject gave to the experience. I thought it interesting when Carl went into Dorsky's examination and reflection into balance. I could feel that balance come through in both the formal elements (lens play, pattern and sometimes image overlap, and conscious choice in framing) and in how the film conceptually came through. Even though I sometimes couldn't make out what was going on, or what an object was, I was captured and very sympathetic and empathetic to the subject due to the intense examination. I can't describe it other than visceral. I was emotionally worn out after.
One of my favorite shots was when I saw the image of what I think might be the effect of a squint, where your eye can see it's own reflection...a sort of spotty microscope like visual that sometimes includes your eyelashes if you squint and focus right. Having this sort of image reminded me, and I'm guessing other viewers of viewing, of seeing. We have such an amazing sense like sight and seeing this on screen really captures how we might take it for granted. I might sound cheesy, but this film really conveyed to me how sacred it is to see.