Developing a Relationship with Beauty

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Once, years ago, I came across a line by the writer Allan Gurganus, a man I greatly admire. In an interview he said: Beauty gives itself so readily if only we’re un-depressed enough to accept its latest offer.

Paradisaea apoda. Elliot, Giraud Daniel. A Monograph of the Paradiseidae

This line remains seared into my heart and mind, years later. As an artist…