About a successful day, by: Peter Handke

A self-portrait drawn by the artist William Hogarth in London, capturing a moment from the eighteenth century, depicting him holding a palette divided almost in half by a line with a light wave, called the "Line of Beauty and Grace." We also find on the desktop a flat, round stone from the shore of Lake Constance, surrounded on one side by black granite, dividing it into nearly two halves and at the same time connecting them with a thin, wavy white line that looks like sweat flowing in the body, creating a wonderful artistic scene, where the curve that appeared at the right moment becomes clear. And in that trip on the suburban train between the hills of the Seine west of Paris, at that hour of the late afternoon, when the fresh air and the light have been consumed in the morning, nothing remains natural, and only the evening remains, which perhaps may help to get out of the day's fatigue, this sudden change of paths; to become a wide arc that seems strange and surprises us, as we pass at the highest point of the town stretching along both banks of the river, passing there at the height of the city of Saint-Cloud and the city of Suresnes themselves almost, which resemble in their madness the prominent landmarks, carrying unexpected curves, to take us out of the chaos of daily life in a moment, between a blink of an eye and its attention; to take a new turn, and again return to the idea of a "successful day" after it nearly got lost in the midst of the day, accompanied by a wave that gives you the feeling of heat; trying to add a new description, or a narration of elements of a day and its problems like this day. The "Line of Beauty and Grace" on Hogarth's palette literally paves the way through unclear color blocks, blending them, and at the same time it seems as if it casts its shadows on them. Number of pages: 64