ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Vana Manasiadis is a Wellingtonian living in Crete. Her first collection of poetry Ithaca Island Bay Leaves will be published in December 2009 by Seraph Press. ‘Was it Only a Scratch?‘ and ‘Essay‘ are from a series of short prose pieces and poems that will form part of a collaborative piece for theatre provisionally called The Lighthouse. The quote in ‘Essay‘ is from text written for the Guggenheim Museum by Sarah Bancroft, (James Rosenquist: A retrospective, 2003), in which she says: ‘Drawing on Einstein’s theory of relativity—in which a stationary spectator sees an event or fixed point differently from a spectator travelling at the speed of light—The Stowaway addresses the limited ‘vision’ available to the viewer of an artwork.’