Scribbles

“It is fair to say that mimetic realism was an achievable goal in periods and places that did not know the paradigm offered by the photographic replica. Furthermore, the optical correctness of photography itself has been regarded with suspicion from the very beginning of its history.”…”Mimesis is the act of imitating nature; mimetic realism is the result.” …”Successful mimesis results in lifelikeness, to trueness-to-life, sometimes to an astonishing degree. However, in part because of its origins in the art of acting, there is always an inherent deceit, or counterfeit, associated with the product of the successful mimetic act.”

Mary Stieber, “The Poetics of Appearance in the Attic Korai”, p.3-4, Univ. of Texas Press, 2004

Kiran's chalk drawing, star shape and sun spots.

Water-proofed bread

Fire Bowl, after Rachel and Luca had cleaned it out

(there is a) “Rosetta stone within each of us which no one, not even love or friendship, can unburden.”

André Aciman, ‘Lavender‘, from Best American Essays of 2003

“Like every writer, he measured the virtues of other writers by their performance, and asked that they measure him by what he conjectured or planned.”

Jorge Louis Borges, from ‘The Secret Miracle’

“actually, I had a viewpoint: I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen”

Charles Bukowski, ‘Two Kinds of Hell’