Art Studio Elbe - Verband freischaffender Künstler.

  Author - Brian Hawkeswood.                                                              Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung It is a curious thing, the way a single face, long since turned to dust, should come to haunt the consciousness of centuries—should float, undiminished, above the whirlpool of time, like a lily set adrift on the eddies of history. The Mona Lisa , or La Gioconda , that most silent of women, who neither speaks nor sings, whose lips—half-parted—suggest a murmur that never comes, is everywhere and nowhere. She hangs behind glass and security and the barriers of cameras raised like votive candles, but she also inhabits ashtrays, T-shirts, toilet doors, even the ghost of our childhood memories, as though she were always already known to us, before we even learned her name. And yet, in all this fami...