Which speaks to a paradox that isn’t limited to the arts, but that in the context of the arts reveals, I think, that the genealogy of each talent involves not only technique, by which any given artwork is externalized, and made sensible to an audience, but also a relationship to landscapes of fertility that are extrinsic to mind (so that they have a life beyond it), and that, if not for a kind of imaginative reaching, on the part of the artist, would remain at a distance from the artist’s creative power.