Wednesday 11 May 2022

Matt Vekakis : part three

When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author?

I am intimately inspired by magical realists and drawn to art that plays with possibility. I am reminded of a Robert Burton quote: “Finitum de infinito non potest statuere [the finite cannot decide about the infinite.]” I respond to magical realism because it dares you to suspend belief about what you think you know. Our knowledge is finite. A few authors I come back to are Márquez and Bolaño. 

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