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15-Jan / 0 COMMENTS
The Wes Anderson Collection and Scheine the cat
Yesterday I’ve been reading once more the introduction by Michael Chabon to The Wes Anderson Collection by Matt Zoller Seitz. This is a book I got two Christmases ago from a very good friend, and which I’ve dived into quite a few times. If you get your hands on a copy- buy it. Every time I open it I find a whole artistic genre or a new artist name (new to me) to read about. Yesterday a few paragraphs jumped out to me which I’d love for you to read too. They made an impression because I find myself lately more and more in conversation with people about what drives me to research the different practical sides of historical theater and historical acting. Michael Chabon, although not talking at all about historical acting, struck a chord with me. Here it is: “Everyone, sooner or later, gets a thorough schooling in brokenness. The question becomes: What to do with the pieces? Some people hunker down atop the local pile of ruins and make do… Others set about breaking what remains of the world into bits ever smaller and more jagged, kicking through the rubble like kids running through piles of leaves. And some people, passing among the scattered pieces of that great overturned jigsaw puzzle, start to pick up a piece here, a piece there, with a vague yet irresistible notion that perhaps something might be done about putting the thing back together again…
“The most we can hope to accomplish with our handful of salvaged bits-the bittersweet harvest of observation and experience-is to build a little world of our own. A scale model of that mysterious original, unbroken, half remembered. Of course the worlds we build out of our store of fragments can be only approximations, partial and inaccurate. As representations of the vanished whole that haunts us, they must be accounted failures. And yet in that very failure, in their gaps and inaccuracies, they may yet be faithful maps, accurate scale models, of this beautiful and broken world. We call these scale models “Works of art”.”
Have a lovely week,
Michal
Historical Acting Matt Zoller Seiz the HIP movement Michael Chabon Wes Anderson