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Alice Baber

All of this did not come about by accident, as I have Light to be seen at all must strike. be reflected from an
pointed out, and in her continued study of light and the object. An object implies a third party: light. the viewer
tragedy of light, Alice Baber has brought to us now a -and a reflecting element. In our lives. then. light can't
kind of ·celestial painting·. even be seen alone. This is the tragedy of light. and
It is as if she wanted to get away from the Earth (and Alice Baber understands it. ■
from her Spirit) to another Reality. Perhaps a better one.
Or perhaps to a personal rearrangement of Reality. This
is Tragic, because it is impossible. But what she gives
us is a hint, a vague image of what light might be. on
some other universe. The 'Tragedy' is. of course. that
light out in space does not exist, of and by itself.

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