8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 353 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --I believe one of the purposes of Art is to encourage the viewer to give a hard look on things that are not really beautiful. We believe that admiring the ideal Beauty will bring us closer to happiness, and we completely forget that in the end Beauty takes us further and further away from salvation, compromising us and bringing us closer to our own downfall. Beauty turns you into a ghost.-- Page read by LINDER STERLING from the famous Porthmeor Studios in Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK here: http://goo.gl/P511r0. Visit www.HavishamHour.com to order fine prints, listen to previous podcasts, and to learn more about this project. ©2013 Julio Panisello.