I began to think about Brakhage's opening paragraph for Metaphors on Vision and his notion of the untored eye and although I could sympathize with sentiment, my experience with my own daughter Maddy seemed more concrete. Sometime after September 11, 2001 (having been displaced and re-settled temporarily in a furnished apartment in Maplewood, New Jersey), Maddy began reading stories from picture books. At four, she knew how to read a few words but mostly made up stories from looking at pictures. This video is my portrait of her (and more) which began in a small industrial city about twenty minutes from Prague, Kladno, early one summer in the year 2000. (POW)