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Mark Doty

“And something else, of course; there’s always more, deep in art’s pockets, far down in the chiaroscuro on which these foodstuffs rest: everything here has been transformed into feeling, as if by looking very hard at an object it suddenly comes that much closer to some realm where it isn’t a thing at all but something just on the edge of dissolving. Into what? Tears, gladness—you’ve felt like this before, haven’t you? Taken far inside.”

Mark Doty, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
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Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy by Mark Doty
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