Great Regulars: When Eric [Mencher] told me that,

I turned and looked, and could see where the vase and the other objects had been placed. But the setting was altogether different from the picture. The living room is a perfectly nice and neat space, and I had just been sitting there, but when I looked at it again there was absolutely nothing about it that would have brought to mind that photo.

Such is the alchemy of art.

from Frank Wilson: When Falls the Coliseum: That's What He Said: Still life and the alchemy of art

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