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violet
Rembrandt
enhanced
stared
hurrying
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(I went into my studio to get my car keys, etc. Out of the corner of my right eye I caught a glimpse of my oil painting, The Girl with The Violet Eyes, as I call it. It’s of a dream image I had on November 8, 1981, although I didn’t finish the painting until February 1983—one of the last I’ve done.
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(Beside the girl’s portrait sat another small portrait of a man which I’d also finished this year, early. And when I looked at that one, I received the same wondrous feeling: It too was alive. In this portrait the man looks off to one side—yet those eyes too were on the point of moving. His opaque flesh had the quality of breathing....
(I didn’t linger to confront my own handiwork, but hurried to get my stuff together and leave the house; I wanted to stop at a bank to get a book updated, and I knew this would make me a few minutes late getting to room 330. But I’d had a unique experience, and one I resolved to describe to Jane.
(One of the first thoughts that came to mind after I realized what was happening was Jane’s book on Rembrandt. Some of the passages of that book, I understood as I left my studio, described what I had just experienced. I felt this without checking the book to see if I was right.
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