Art as Autobiography.\xa0 Consider the source of all painting, cinema, music, performance, and literature.\xa0 Genre notwithstanding.\xa0 The source is Self.\xa0 Life.\xa0 Details, echos, remembrances and references of our "real" life, midwifed into creation.\xa0 Conscious or not, narrative or not -- art is always about what we're going through at the time.\xa0 Acclaimed writer Paul Auster probably disagrees.\xa0 And he should.\xa0 As this author of iconic literature - including five memoirs (!) -\xa0has always been in the eye of the self-reflexive storm of creating, he would only feel its calm.\xa0 Assuming there is one.