Bernadette’s diary
recent digital pubblication
on Apple Book
for free reading
under
author: LEE-PISAPIA Kam Fu Bernadette
portraits of Antonio
photos
drawings
digital drawings
paintings
of the same person
over the years
of the one you know well enough
even to draw without looking
but which is the real Antonio
the one photographed
or the one drawn spontaneously
or the one painted from memory
or the one
depicted once from life
then reworked over and over
in order to
find the real spirit
of Antonio
can anyone find the real spirit of someone at all
in your mind
or in reality
or what if
that person's spirit
is forever on the move
so much on the move
that you can't quite locate it
even with the time
even with the best technical means:
such as a frozen moment captured
with the lens
or the most capable hands of drawing-
Because resemblance
is not equated to spiritual essence
But with many attempts
of various efforts
somehow
you seem to have caught what you want to catch:
that one moment-
perhpas you feel:
Ah, that is Antonio
Whether Antonio agrees with your vision or not
is yet another story
Is he Antonio
or is he someone else
or is someone else trying to look like Antonio
What then is the true vision
of someone you know so well
after having drawn him for thirty-two years