Arts Scene Regional Photographers Dutch Treat exposure Page 10 Page 13 Page 19 APRIL 2021 Arts & Leisure in Southern New Mexico Volume 26 • Number 4 2 • APRIL 2021 www.desertexposure.com EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK • ELVA K. ÖSTERREICH Bigger on the Inside Looking beyond the low-res copies hether watching your like that wardrobe (“The Lion, ferent place, as she writes about bed, dying of cancer and then our unexpressed grief with us, it nanny pull an umbrel- the Witch and the Wardrobe” by the pain of being judged and the a boy who was raped by his fa- comes back and gets compound- Wla from her carpet bag C.S. Lewis) and the rabbit hole hurt that words can cause. Big- ther and doesn’t know how to ed with every new grief and loss. or traveling in time and relative Alice begins her adventure with ger on the inside becomes an in- keep fighting. Suddenly its about It oozes out in our anxiety and dimension in space (TARDIS) (“Alice’s Adventures in Wonder- ternal thing. death and suicide. Why should stress; it shows up in our back- accompanying an alien with two land” by Lewis Carroll). “You'd think I'd shot their chil- she feel so bad about a few crit- aches and stomachaches, it ap- hearts, the concept of something But we can also go much fur- dren, from the way that they are ics when others are clearly feel- pears in our drinking and our being bigger on the inside is both ther back, more than 3,000 years, talking,” the song starts. And ing so much worse? eating habits. amazing and well known. to a time when the king of the she goes on to describe how the Recently I was feeling de- At the end of her song, Aman- Certainly, it didn’t start with Greek gods, Zeus, was a baby. He critics’ words stress her, “I’ve pressed and whiney about some da’s friend with cancer tells her: Mary Poppins or Dr. Who and it was hidden from his father, Kro- been drunk and skipping dinner, things that were going on with "We are so much bigger on the creeps up on you in some of our nos, who would consume all his eating skin from off my fingers.” my teeth. I had surgery and was inside most popular culture. There is children. Zeus was kept in a cave She admits her brother would feeling frustrated and in pain. You, me, everybody Snoopy’s doghouse in the Pea- with a goat, Amalthea, who fed have been proud of her if she But, I thought, people have been Some day when you're lying nuts comic strip, which contains him. The infant Zeus accidentally could shake off the insults. going through this very same where I am a swimming pool, recreation broke off one of her horns, which “I am bigger on the inside thing for hundreds of years, who You'll finally get it, beauty room, a closet with a faulty then poured forth a never-ending But you have to come inside am I to complain? What right We are so much bigger latch and many other spaces and supply of nourishment. to see me do I have to be depressed about Than another one can ever see things. In the Harry Potter books But what does it mean, “big- Otherwise you're only hating this thing? What is this next-to- But Hermione’s handbag contains ger on the inside?” This physical Other people's low-res copies.” nothing pointless sadness that is Trying is the point of life not only money and books but concept serves as a powerful We all are bigger on the in- overcoming me? Others have it So don't stop trying also clothes, Harry’s Cloak of In- jumping off point into metaphor side. We are vast and complex; so much worse. Promise me." visibility, healing supplies, camp- and science. As with the TARDIS nobody can feel or see what the But my doctor negated that, ing equipment and, eventually, a and the wardrobe, the concept individual self is. Each of us is letting me know it is okay to feel full-size painted portrait. implies the world and the uni- the center of the world. I love whatever I may be feeling. If you Elva K. There are those who argue verse are much more than what the simile of “other people’s low- are having a difficult time with Österreich is that mathematician and writer we see with our eyes, and per- res copies” because it describes anything, small or large, your editor of Desert Charles Howard Hinton (1853- haps includes infinite possibili- how the further you are from emotions are still valid. In fact, Exposure and 1907) started the idea in his ties, dimensions, ideas. Maybe directly knowing someone, the I have found it is not uncommon would love to short stories and essays laying somewhere things are different, further you are from understand- to feel guilty for being depressed meet Desert out scientific framework for di- better, more interesting. There ing them. Unfortunately, that dis- in the first place. This creates Exposure mensionality in literature and is perhaps an escape from the tance seems to make it easer to a vicious and dangerous cycle, readers in Silver City or coined the word tesseract. mundane, a way to run away, a pass judgement on those people withdrawal and more internal any of our coverage areas. Then there are items that might place to find truth. we are not in direct contact with. anguish. Please contact her at editor@ be described as bigger on the in- Where is truth? 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