carlos Restrepo
Lazaro
The face; its astonishing flexibility makes it our primary channel for communicating emotion. The muscles of the face consist of elastic sheets stretched in layers over bone and cartilage, over fat and other tissue. Acting singly or in combination, these muscles allow us to create more than a thousand unique expressions.
Language…whether spoken or written, and no matter how finely crafted…cannot match the face’s capacity for expressing emotion. A raised eyebrow can be a question or an invitation, a hint or a command, an indication of teasing or a warning of danger. A slight flaring of the nostrils, a line of tension along the jaw, a furrow in the brow…these form a grammar of the face. It can sustain a lifetime of study.
Eloquence, it’s said, consists of saying what needs to be said and no more. This face is eloquent indeed.
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