About the Give and Take of Tools

About the Give and Take of Tools Barbara Mackowiak When one morning I believed I was going blind - - - -because in a dream I had only peripheral visionI took a Polaroid and shot pictures in glass. The eye is always drawn by the central lacking, BarbaraMackowiak (writer,artist), 3549 Lake Shore Avenue, Oakland.CA94610, U.S.A. Received5June 1989 0 1990 ISAST PergammPressplc. PrintedinGreatBritain. 0024494)(/90 $3.00+0.M) the heart pauses at that very white fear: So short a step from goals to a world without focus. The blank at the very face, the opaque core, naked now to my camera as to my dreaming, caught, by design now, wherever I look. I almost wanted to cry, Less light, less light! At the edges, at dusk, in the accents, by indirection, let erratic data creep in and make a whole. All inventions aid the geology of cells lying in wait ready to teach how we felt and how we recognized what it was we pictured when we saw. LEONARD0,Vol. 23, No.2/3, Q.231,1990 231 ...