What is that? You look at this and you don’t know what it represents. You look at it anyway and you keep looking at it. Could it be that you look at this drawing precisely because you don’t know what it represents and that puts you into a visual mode. You look for the pleasure of looking.
Now here’s the whole drawing from which the above is a passage. Now you know. But notice, this drawing, where you 
get the whole story, is not as much fun to look at. Simple reason: now you know what’s what and being in that what’s-what state of mind is not interesting. The mind prefers mystery—at least in a work of the imagination.
Alejandra cropped an intriguing passage out of a still life drawing that was too literal and saved the day.
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artamaze by Katherine Hilden 