said the artist, is that they kiss
each other in such a way that you
can not tell where the negative area ends
and the positive one begins.
For example, he continued,
if you look at a black area of paint
you think of, let’s say, a cave
and if the black is kissed by white
you think the cave’s mouth is washed by ocean’s foam
and somehow as you move your eyes from black to white
or the other way around
you see the cave as a tunnel from where the water rushes out
falling off through rocks where the sun hits it and
you think you see a little canoe with people in it
winding up a slightly raging wave
about to get swallowed by the waterfall
but then you look closer
and you see that’s just a brush stroke...illusion,
the secret wooing of the artist’s hand
and you say, aha, that’s what maestro was trying to show me,
and you leave the studio but you’re in the cave still.
Ani Gjika
