SHIRT OF FLAME: POETICS OF MINIATURE: JOSEPH CORNELL'S BOXES
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This idea of making connections, of reuniting things that have been lost or separated from each other is dear to my heart. In the parable of the lost sheep, Jesus says "What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, `Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.' [Luke 15: 4-6].
In fact, however, most people would be glad to let the rogue sheep go. The hell with him if he insists on wandering off. Only someone who has felt him- or herself to be lost, only someone who has suffered the terrible exile of feeling cut off from the herd, would so yearn to find, and bring back home, the one lost sheep.
[Definitely dear to my heart.]
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