| He is slowly assembling an
arcade, placing images besides each other, waiting for the chance
encounter to render memory permanent. "His first task, after all is to explore the
wilderness in search of those emblems- those 'gleams of a better
light; as Ralph Waldo Emerson calls them- which lead directly
to the ineffable, not by way of aesthetics but on the currents
and tides of life. Carter Ratcliff on : Joseph Cornell- Mechanic
of the Ineffable |
