Friction

the body moving in space through time (aging) the mind churning gears of thought tension the timeless world the world of time Pierre Bonnard, I learned yesterday, enshrined his aging, difficult wife as a youthful goddess in paintings depicting their home as Paradise: a state he lived in, or aspired to? The artist speaks to the figure in the Grecian urn, the Byzantine mosaic: “Tell me your secret! ” and then recoils— Am I talking to my own creations? No, no, he shakes his head. It's you I'm speaking to, O Soul behind the world— so near, so far.