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"Pondering The Light To Come"(From our "Quarterly
Magazine")It is sometimes said that "a little knowledge
can be a dangerous thing" and this proverb suggests that
a small amount of knowledge can tempt people into
believing they are more expert than they really are,
which can lead to mistakes being made.Perhaps. But, if you
are less than twelve years old, living in one room with
your parents and without hot or cold running water,
sitting up in bed, off-school with the mumps, or flu,
while both mum and dad are out at work earning the rent,
and you are very sad you won't be able to enjoy your
weekly Sunday visit to the Tate and National Galleries
that week as a result, you probably don't know, and care
even less, that the Chiaroscuro technique can be traced
back to the work of Apollodorus Skiagraphos, a Greek
painter who used hatched shadows to suggest volume (none
of whose works have survived it seems) and, likely as
not, to drown out the irritating sound of Wood Pigeon's
cries in the garden (none of which you can see because
of the London smog) you might very well dwell, with
pencil and cheap "sketchbook", on the theme of "light
& Dark" or indeed "From The Dark Into The Light"?Thus, when this character appeared in the
garden, even though she was an uninvited (but not
unwelcome) visitor, as she sat pondering, who knows
what, it coincided with our magazine
article/editorial effort of the day, and so an
affinity arose, where three creatures, she and we,
who did not speak, had not spoke, and likely would
never converse, seemed strangely at one, connected.So, though her
companion the Crow appears to serve her well, it
occurred to us that we all need a familiar . . .
. .Deborah
Susan Jones,
Writer.
