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...Germany's Heinz Mack, 36, one of the Group Zero, abandoned painted abstractions in 1953 to study philosophy and logic for three years at the University of Cologne. Artistic illumination came to him in 1959, when accidentally, he stepped on a piece of aluminum foil on a sisal rug, was delighted with the light reflections on its newly embossed surface. Today he uses plastics, spotlights, rotors, polished aluminum foil and nubbled glass to recapture this "amazing, profoundly changing" phenomenon, says that "to me, light plays the same part that color used to play for painters...
...naturally enough, called it suicide and pounced upon an apparent suicide note that had been written some time before. Coroner Nicholas Chetta, however, labeled the death the result of a cerebral hemorrhage, most likely brought on by "overexcitement and hypertension." Indeed, Ferrie, nervous, sick, probably homosexual-with thick rug-like pieces of fabric replacing eyebrows, lost either by accident or disease-had known that Garrison was after him and, said his physician, had been "disturbed and depressed...
...sensitive, cigarette huckster son of a despotic Greek rug dealer find happiness with the sleep-around daughter of a small-town Dixie bigot? Well, sort of. If you give him 444 pages to work...
Emerson said that the only true gift is a gift of self. All the greatest presents bear him out, whether it is Cleopatra offering herself to Caesar wrapped in a rug, or-on a more spiritual plane-the Juggler of Our Lady giving all he has: his little art. Not everyone can offer his own composition, as Richard Wagner did when he gave the Siegfried Idyll to his wife. But the art of giving would be immensely enhanced if more people today took whatever skill and time they had to make gifts themselves...
...just for a moment. "Stay there," he says as he goes over to a shelf. "We just got these in." He comes back holding a pair of furry pants. "Yetti pants," he explains. "Yetti is another word for the Abominable Snowman." I stroked the pants. "Just like a rug," he grins. Groovy...