"Objects hold ideas like amber traps insects. A sofa or a chair is an artifact of the time in which it was created, its lines and planes are what's left behind in the world when the storm of an ideology has passed by. But if we don't remember the ideas that led to the final form of the chair or the sofa, if we don't recognize the kind of insect trapped in the amber, the artifact loses all its meaning and becomes shape and line and form only. It becomes the narcissistic manipulation of outside things, becomes like a woman valued for her face who learns to ignore her heart."
-Natalia Ilyin, from an essay entitled The No-Draw Rule in her book Chasing the Perfect
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