The inaugural Jewish Arts for the New Millennium panel on "framing" and "interpretive practice" reminded me of a micro-prose poem by Alex Epstein:
"Portrait of the Artist as an Artist
This tale is rather old: Two painters wanted to see which of them could paint the painting that best imitated reality... One of the painters painted the front of a house, and the illusion was so perfect, so exact, that at first his competitor believed he had lost, but then understood that he simply had to enter the painted house and hang the painting that he had painted on a wall inside."
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