Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

One task remained. I was eager to make a film to preserve the drama of the Dork project experiment, but wanted to avoid excessive braggadocio. I recalled James Joyce s advice in his 1916 novel. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, that a creator should remain within or behind or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. I decided to clip... 

J.Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, London and Toronto, Heinemann Educational Books, 1964, p. 189. We thank Jean Kirsch for suggesting this quotation in relation to the image. 

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