“Unveiling Hidden Depths: How Patrick Bringley’s ‘All the Beauty in the World’ Transforms Everyday Life into Extraordinary Art”
As someone who prefers letters and words to numbers and equations, not because I am particularly adept at the former, but because I don’t know what to do with math, I was remembering the call of beauty, the love of art, as a child. When I thought of my childhood, there was no older sibling, but there was someone to grieve.
Bringley’s brother liked Raphael, so they thumbtacked the Madonna of the Goldfinch above his hospital bed. For Bringley, this was something akin to throwing a halo around the room, and it was about great art—both visual and written—that got him thinking about the idea of ‘gape,’ of gazing or staring back at, perhaps as we might when visiting a great cathedral, or diving into a dazzling piece of literature.
