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Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge was born in 1947 in her mother's native city of...
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Constancy to an Ideal Object
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Ideal

 
by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

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I did not know beforehand what would count for me as a new color. Its beauty is an analysis
of things I believe in or experience, but seems to alter events very little. The significance of a bird
flying out of grapes in a store relates to the beauty of the color of the translucency of grapes.
There is a space among some objects on a table that reminded her of a person, the way the bird reminded her,
a sense of the ideal of the space she would be able to see. Beauty can look like this around objects.
A plastic bag on a bush, moving slightly, makes an alcove, a glove or mist, holding the hill.
Time can look like this. The plane of yourself separates from the plane of spaces between objects,
an ordered succession a person apprehends, in order to be reminded.







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