eyes open or eyes shut .. Time looking or time remembering .. seeing something for the Nth time 

Henry Holmes Smith (HHS) Patterns on the shower door ~ Not a camera at hand; the wife is at Kroegers, so shouting isn’t going to help ..

Could I make it out get a camera and return with drip pattern still available –how long can drips stay …

turns out — not long enough. I missed it .

would it be as exciting if I were to simulate it… that’s what HHS did, better than any attempt of mine. I even have the advantage of having seen his work while I was early in my working life .. that’s probably why they stayed with me. frequently I’ve wished I had taken the opportunity, when it was offered me, to attend school has his student . but, as it happens , when you’re young , working in a craft driven mode, expanding beyond the skill of doing is the most difficult part of transition — the transfer into authorship.