TRACES OF KING LEAR

Who is it that can tell me who I am?

King Lear, I.iv.230

Portrait of Lear and the Fool. Charcoal on paper.
September 2012

THE TRUTH WITHIN

Those works of art which have scooped up the truth and presented it to us as a living force – they take hold of us, compel us, and nobody ever, not even in ages to come, will appear to refute them. … They can perform a miracle. … art transfers the whole weight of an unfamiliar, lifelong experience with all its burdens, its colours, its sap of life; it recreates in the flesh an unknown experience and allows us to possess it as our own.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Lecture, 1970 

Portrait of Stanislavski by Valentin Serov, 1908