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Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys.
To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.
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Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) was a self taught assemblage artist known for his shadowbox pieces. I have always found his work fascinating. There’s a feeling of ultimate mystery in many of the pieces, one that makes me feel as though I am looking at something that is both familiar and alien. Like seeing a sentence in a foreign language where you can pick out a word or two but can’t grasp the meaning of the whole.
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Redtree Times 
Fascinating on their own, and a reminder of the shadow boxes and dioramas we created out of shoe boxes in grade school. No high art in those, and not much deep meaning, but it was a first taste of the pleasures of selection and arrangement.
He’s brilliant. How are you!??
Wishing all is well
Aubrey & Jean
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So good to hear from you, Aubrey! Things are going well, working hard here in my little studio in the woods. How are things with you and Jean? Life is good at Christie’s? Sending you both all our best wishes!– gary & cheri