The opening paragraph of the spirit takes risk.
We use a palette for this, but it is transparent.
Well, you know, some people like to lay it down and clean it out
like fish.
No stigma is attached.
Even today, we find nothing accomplished
that has not lain in the possible range of graphic art.
Smeared on, shaded in with the chalk and spattered.
I see how deeply we must have failed.
Unless it happens, we were not human.