umm...people were creating pointillistic images long before Chuck Close. I have to say I think there is a degree of originality in her work, though of course things tend to always reflect on what has been done in the past - and that's not a bad thing IMO. There are other more crazily original artists out there, but I don't think I've seen her particular pointillistic style before and especially her text works. Regardless of originality though, the works are delicate and tense, poignant and beautiful to me. I value that in this work.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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