Note found in a drawer

"...I thought of you today while I worked on my new still life. Do you think still lifes are worth doing? Why paint something that is more dead than alive? I wondered how to put life into something with just your hand, this mysterious force that jumps like electricity between the sight and your eye, and then your eye and your hand, and then your hand and the brush, and so on. And back to your eye; it all comes down to what you can see, doesn't it, because no matter what your hand can do, it can't fix dimness of vision. ..." 

From the novel "The Swan Thieves" by Elizabeth Kostova.

Detalhe de "Café a la montagne". 

Daniela Kissling 06/2010.

Prefiro desenhar e pintar pessoas mas em alguns casos, o objeto é o ponto de equilíbrio que faltava...