Sunday, 24 July 2011

The male erotic, exaggerated & as transcription


sketchbook playfulness - the male form under scrutiny 








Degas' woman washing becomes man washing

Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Tuesday, 5 July 2011

I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils

Dolor

I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper-weight,
All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,
Desolation in immaculate public places,
Lonely reception room, lavatory, switchboard,
The unalterable pathos of basin and pitcher,
Ritual of multigraph, paper-clip, comma,
Endless duplication of lives and objects.
And I have seen dust from the walls of institutions,
Finer than flour, alive, more dangerous than silica,
Sift, almost invisible, through long afternoons of tedium,
Dropping a fine film on nails and delicate eyebrows,
Glazing the pale hair, the duplicate gray standard faces. 

Theodore Roethke
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