The Witch
- THE WITCH - A black ink and black color pencil drawing on an 11 x 14 size coquille board. It appears in the book, "Anita," by Keith Roberts, published by Owlswick Press in 1990. It was used as the letter icon of the first word in each of the stories in the book.
Please look into Anita's eyes. Keep looking into her eyes as you move your head to the right, and then to the left. Notice that her eyes keep looking at you no matter where you move. That's because the drawing is "two-dimensional," flat. Looking at her from different angles does not alter the "picture" at any of those angles, she continues looking at you.
Imagine the head of Anita being a three-dimensional sculpture resting on a pedestal. Stand directly in front of her and look at her face. Call it picture no.1: Her nose is in the middle of her face, both ears are equally distant from the center of the nose, and her eyes look directly at you. Now take a step around her right side and look at her face, call it picture no.2: It is not the same picture as no.1, her nose has shifted a bit to the left, as well as her eyes which are no longer looking directly at you. With each step that you take around Anita's head the "picture" you see of her face is different from the previous one because you changed the viewing angle. Anita looked at you only in picture no.1.
But my "drawing" of Anita is a "two" dimension object, you can't take any steps "around" her, you can only see her as she is in the flat drawing, looking at you.
Surprisingly, some people who read my explanation still do not understand it, and I can't think of another explanation that will help.
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