Rembrandt

" Why did Rembrandt use himself as his own prop?
Well, because he was there, but, just as importantly, because he wasn't there. He was shifiting his own boundaries. He was inching into other selves. These self-portraits  are a record, not of one life, but of many lifes - lives piled in on another, and sometimes surfacing through the painter and into the paint.

The fixed points is the artist himself, about whom we know enough to write a biography. But the fixed points is the only base camp - the journeys out from there are what interests. Rembrandt's pictures are the journeys out and the psychic distance travelled can be measured as light. "
Jeannette Winterson, The Powerbook.






.  . .. speechless, né? . . .E me fez lembrar da fala do Assis, artista aqui em Uberlândia, quando diante de um trabalho meu na exposição !FiatLux!:
 _ É, Carla . .esse seu quadro é como um auto-retrato!  . . .Aí vai o foto dele . .  .

kisses inching into other selves

Carlinha