서량의 詩, 글, 음악/김정기의 글동네/NY, NJ, USA

Shadow -- To the woman in “Nude in pink” paninted by Matisse (1935) Leg Thick leg in parentheses Warm leg One arm a lying building The other a piece of dough flake Matisse didn't paint women Matisse just painted pictures There are two naked women One is scarlet woman The other one is shadow woman Note on the Muse: Matisse's famous quote makes me flinch. “I don’t paint women… I paint pictures." H..

“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” -- Abraham Lincoln We cannot really discern the true character of a tree. We can only perceive it through the shadow it casts. Shakespeare alluded to this idea through the character of MacBeth: “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player...” Similarly, we can only observe a per..