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As was often the case, the woman's face in my drawing is a composite of several faces, including Bob Dylan's face. After doing the drawing, I was reading a book of poetry by Emily Dickinson, perceived a very slight resemblance between the face in my drawing and a photo of Emily Dickinson, and gave the drawing the title, "Emily Dickinson with Paintbrush."
Now that I look at the two faces again, I don't see what I saw in 1984. Still, I like the idea of an Emily Dickinson who was a painter in addition to being a poet. She is holding her paintbrush in an unexpected way, just as Emily Dickinson put her thoughts into words in unexpected and challenging ways.
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(Photo from Amherst College Library)
1 comment:
hi Am. This evening, I've just been enjoying looking at and reading about your art (found my way here from Dharma Bums). Beautiful work. It's great that you're creating a sort of retrospective blog gallery of your work. Wonderful idea.
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