(Submitted by the author)
Years ago, I met a man who noticed lint. After Reinhold Marxhausen watched his wife clean the clothes dryer screen, he began to collect this peculiar stuff, not seeing throwaway material, but texture, color and invention. A Professor of Art at Concordia College in Nebraska, he layered the multi-colored fibers under glass, forming abstractions that echoed landscape. I bought one, as a reminder to look more closely at my immediate world.
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and...
F. Scott Fitzgerald, USA
