Pinocchio and its name means dream

and its name means dream

When William Eggleston's second artist’s book Morals of Vision was first published in 1978 in a limited edition of 15

4 cm 192 pages 122 film stills 39 photographs

colleagues

natural and artificial

Pinocchio and its name means dreamThanks to Carlo Collodi, the real creator of Pinocchio, I have for many years been able to live thru the wooden boy. His ability to hold the metaphor in limitless ways has made my drawings, paintings and sculpture of him richer by far. His poor burned feet, his misguided judgment, his vanity about his large nose, his temporary donkey ears all add up to the real sum of his parts. In the end it is his great heart that holds me. I have carried him on my