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Once is forever


Sometimes one experience is so right that there's no chance of it happening twice.  It doesn't leave a desire for more.  It kills any wish to do it again.  Any attempt to feel the same.  Writing and painting can fall into this category.  I liked making the pictured piece.  Welding the word "still" on top of a steel frame.  But I never tried to make a similar wall sculpture.  I'm not sure why.  It wasn't too much work to complete.  I only used the necessary amount of material.  I liked it, even if others weren't so impressed.  After looking at it for a few years I still enjoy seeing it hanging in the studio.  The blue color on the textured black is a nice contrast.  It's as original as anything I've done.  I could knock out twenty more that would all have a family resemblance.  But I haven't.   It reminds me of that one great night with a beautiful woman who I never saw again.  Some things are meant to stay rare.  They exist to remind a person that a singularity isn't just a fantasy, or a violation of some law of physics.   It can have a real place in a human life.  


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