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Drawing and photography are central to my practice. Both make pressing - if sometimes fictitious - claims to the capture of lost moments.




06/04/2011

From the archive: presentiment


is that long shadow on the lawn
Indicative that suns go down;
The notice to the startled grass
That darkness is about to pass. 




                                 E.D.





Listening to the international news: Libya, Ivory Coast...


Indian ink and pencil in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.





03/04/2011

Exultation - for Ana

For Ana




Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea,
Past the houses - past the headlands - 
Into deep Eternity -

Bred as we, among the mountains, 
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?


                          Emily Dickinson




Exhibition

Here's a snippet from the exhibition Sobre Natural at the Casa da Cerca in Almada, Portugal, moonlit by the score...

From the archive: Urban expressionism (2002-2007)