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Tales from the Other Side of Language 39 PART TWO: WALK IN WILDERNESS
40 Ruth Codier Resch Without Utterance: I dare to register at Parson’s School of Design. I have no pretensions to art, no talent, as it were. Go to the best to start on the prescription Dr. Sarno gave me, I think. I’m anxious speaking to strangers by myself, and I feel like an art dunce with real art students. Knowing so little, I choose Color Theory, then fear it will be wordy. We sit at tables arranged in a large circle with fat bundles of 4x6 inch silk-screen color swatches, scissors, and glue. The colors are textured and luscious to the eye. We spend our time cutting up the colors, working out little exercises. We learn the brashness of comple-mentary colors, how any color looks different beside any other, how you think you are going to get one effect and you get another. I find pleasure in the simplicity and challenge of the visual. The instructor walks around the inside of the circle of tables commenting and critiquing. He nods appreciatively one day at my work as he goes around the oval, “That’s the work of a mature person. You know what you are about.” I’m startled. Next I choose a flower drawing class. In all those summers of drawing, I could never translate what I did to my life in the city. Whatever creativity I had stayed with the weeds and wild flowers on that small island. A vase of flowers sits in the center of the table we sit around, each week a different bouquet, sometimes exotic, sometimes common. The bouquet as a whole is too
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