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Thursday, 24 July 2014


Édouard Boubat



He Stands So Thin And Waits - Vesna Goldsworthy

I take my spectacles off
Before the ink lines of his limbs
Emerge from the crowd
Before the smile closes his eyes
Below the clock at Waterloo
Half way between
A Giacometti and a Meissen Chinaman
He stands so thin and waits
Yet I am the fragile, the much sutured one
This time, shall we …
His question bleeds
Into the departure
Of the one forty two
For fear of being early
I am the one who is late
Who takes the last few steps
Like someone who hasn’t walked before
But how are you, I ask
And hold his hand for a moment
In what I hope feels like a handshake
We do not touch
Thereafter
We do not touch




Egon Schiele, Portrait of Karl Zakovsek



“I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learnt to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.” 

—Saul Leiter









Errol Flynn on his yacht Sirocco 1941





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