« TIME is the substance of which I am made. Time is a RIVER that sweeps me along, but I am the RIVER; it is a TIGER that devours me, but I am the TIGER; it is a FIRE that consumes me, but I am the FIRE. »
Jorge Luis Borges
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My first encounter with painting occurred some years ago. I was about six or seven, eating breakfast at my parents’ place, a bowl of hot chocolate in front of me (the most important part of the day for a morning girl like me). In the kitchen was a portrait of my father, painted by a cousin, Alain Signoles. Every day, while looking at this painting, I would play at spotting mistakes: I had to find (and I found!) one new mistake each day.
Alain’s paintings are powerful, shaped by fauvism and German expressionism: my father’s hair is bottle green, his skin titanium white (the morning-after complexion), his elbow pointed, his eyes wonky with a slight squint (the eye of a man still thinking of his studies). The poorly coloured-in backdrop is exotic blue, the nose green (red would have been more logical). I did not understand the attraction and enchantment of such an odd portrait. But I knew that I won my game every day!
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My first encounter with painting occurred some years ago. I was about six or seven, eating breakfast at my parents’ place, a bowl of hot chocolate in front of me (the most important part of the day for a morning girl like me). In the kitchen was a portrait of my father, painted by a cousin, Alain Signoles. Every day, while looking at this painting, I would play at spotting mistakes: I had to find (and I found!) one new mistake each day.
Alain’s paintings are powerful, shaped by fauvism and German expressionism: my father’s hair is bottle green, his skin titanium white (the morning-after complexion), his elbow pointed, his eyes wonky with a slight squint (the eye of a man still thinking of his studies). The poorly coloured-in backdrop is exotic blue, the nose green (red would have been more logical). I did not understand the attraction and enchantment of such an odd portrait. But I knew that I won my game every day!
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