![]() ![]() This was the challenge George Eliot faced when she set out to convey something of the reality of a provincial English town in the early nineteenth century she had to come up with a way to write a remarkable novel about unremarkable characters in an unremarkable setting. Stories that are too real are seldom interesting, while the stories that are the most riveting usually feature situations audiences are unlikely to encounter in their real lives. Since artists are also possessed of a desire to share their work and have it appreciated, they face the conundrum of having to wrest the attention of their audience away from the very reality they hope to relay some piece of-a feat which can only be accomplished with the assurance of something extraordinary. ![]() ![]() All artists are possessed of the urge to render through some artificial medium the experience of something real. ![]()
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