23.9.12

What It Is The Eye Discerns



Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, 
a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness.

– Edward Said

. . . . .

Across time
something has been written –

a solitude

to

a solitude

to

a silence –

across time 
something is being said.

. . . . .

In an otherwise dark room the requisite skill
of the imagination stalks a part of self.


At hand, an invisible pause – out of it an inkling finds a point
of departure from the concreteness of the outside world.


The soil shifts, something begins – 
a sprouting, if you will.

. . . . .

From the power of one's palette a mood, an idea, begins. In its quiet way of rendering 
interpretation, the mind works rigorously with the eyes to lift an impression off the page.

. . . . .


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