2014-04-07 Alchemy LVII. Poetry after metaphor

I am watching. Before the vignette of Alchemy ends, Paulina Eglė Pukytė is reading. I do not recognise her – letters present her. This is what is written: Paulina Eglė Pukytė writer, artist.

I am thinking. Is a writer (or poet) not an artist in our culture? What if he/she isn’t? What is he/she then? Some specialist of writing words? If he/she is a specialist, he/she is not an artist for sure. Still, thoughts do not calm down: who could deny that an artist is a specialist of encoding? (...)