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Is it possible that by the close observation and coordination of hand-and-eye necessary to copy a work you can enter the "mind" of an artist—gain an approximation of what it was like to see the world through his (or her) eyes—in a more intense and direct way than merely passively looking *at* the work? A few minutes of Van Gogh, survived, thank god, with both ears still attached:
Text from the gnostic
Gospel of Thomas.
What it has to do
with the drawing
I couldn't say:
daily mandala
Notes for a short story scrunched
up around a bird drawing. I always find it easier to write when I hardly have any space to put the words, like on envelopes or post cards or napkins. Then the words & ideas just come flowing out of me! Better yet when I don't have any paper at all...or pen, crayon or computer. I'm always guaranteed to write real masterpieces when there's nothing available with which to record them.
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