"Sometimes, I imagine my own life as a series of snapshots taken by some omniscient artist who is just keeping track - not interfering or say anything, just capturing the moment for me to look back at it again later... This is the way it is, the photograph says, and I nod my head in appreciation. The power of art is in the nod of appreciation, though sometimes I puzzle nothing out, and the nod is more a shrug.  No, I do not understand this one, but I see it.  I take it in.  I will think about it.  If I sit with this image long enough, this story, I have the hope of understanding something I did not understand before.  And that, too, is art, the best art."

Dorothy Allision, from "This Is Our World"