Inexactitudes in the Soul of Rainwater

Into the image: response to the art of Remedios Varos

By Astarmarket — Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=99402257 — Depicting “Useless Science or the Alchemist” by Remedios Varo, 1955

Daughter of an engineer,
her artistic eye, influenced by
a childhood where compasses
and set squares sat side by side with
paint and crayons; tutored on a father’s knee,
dangled over designs and plans on the slope
of a drafting board, her framed worlds
were never flat; inherited
acuity for mathematics…