we really need another portrait here and this one is friendly. So it does not matter that the sitter, an old neighbor, turned out to be a con-man: it is still a friendly, soft portrait; just goes to show ....whatever.
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this is a wonderful piece of work, so gentle and thoughtful. do you think that we put something of ourself into what we do? what i mean is do you think we create some aspect of how we see ourselves, even though we are making a portrait or a photograph for example of someone else?
it sometimes seems to me that we do. i can sometimes feel it in my pictures and wonder if you do too?
i suppose i feel that you have drawn something of yourself here, although i hardly know what that is or what you look like!!
very best wishes, i have been tired, i will write soon.
adam
Dear Adam!
I'm so happy to see You are back and, I hope, rested! I owe You a big letter, it's just that this season tends to be so confused -
I'm sure You are right - some capability to tune in has to be there in order to catch a particular mood. In the case of my sketches it's brute force mostly - I make many and trash most (that's why I'm so concerned about the price of materials),leaving only the few of some content (but not necessarily what I intended at first) and often it takes me a long time to see what is in them, rather than the failure of what I originally wanted.
All this is obviously of no interest to the viewer: if You like something, it's due first of all to Your great sensitivity, so
it makes me just very, very happy to hear a drawing made an impression.
I guess photography is by far superior here: if a motive catches Your eye, it no doubt resonates with some aspect of You already there and You can follow spontaneously.
All the best, and thanks!!
Alicja
after a while: now I finally see, the drawing does make sense! It shows the man as spineless.
(this idea could never be in any other language I know)
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