"I want to plant some object in the world. Now, it happens to be made of signs, which may lead people to think, because it's made of signs, that it's pointing somewhere. But actually I've gone down the road and collected all sorts of highway signs and made a piece of sculpture out of these things that says Chicago, 35,000 miles. What I hope, of course, is that people will come along, gather in front of the sculpture, and just look at it -- consequently forgetting Chicago."

-- William Gass

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

By the way:

chiaroscuro |kēˌärəˈsk(y)oŏrō; kēˌarə-|
noun
the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting.
• an effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something : the chiaroscuro of cobbled streets.
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