Antlitz - Countenance

To me it is exceedingly hard to draw a face. The hardest thing is to capture what Levinas would call the countance - I really love the German translation "Antlitz", because it embodies also the word "anderer"/ the "other" (which is something that cannot be touched by the self) - because to Levinas it incorporates an absolute openess and nakedness. I envision this as the possibilty to have a glimpse at a person's soul, a third dimension that is hard to enclose in the two dimensions of a piece of paper...

Yet there have been those few lucky moments when one feels that by whatever uncontrollable miraculous circumstances one has accomplished it. The more miraculous yet, if another person wholeheartedly agrees.