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“You should go on with this part until it is played out, until it loses interest for you. Then you can leave it, just as you've left your other parts one by one.”

From the film "Persona"
Written by Ingmar Bergman

For many years I have wanted to talk about the lie that is authenticity, at least what the concept refers to when attempting to achieve it. Can you fake the real thing? I'm sure not. Authenticity is inherently that way. Period. Right…?

It is said that artists inevitably project pieces of themselves in their work. Whether it is a portrait, an abstraction, or an …