How does one make the beholder stay put? The paradoxical answer is that you make the beholder take notice by denying that he/she is there. This is the 'Supreme Fiction:' the denial of the beholder's existence, an existence that is intimately tied to the primordial convention that paintings are made to be beheld. They are not made to be sniffed, to be touched, to be tasted, to be listened to. They are made to be beheld.