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7. candace (1996)
oil on canvas
70 x 45 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
Years after the war, after marriages, children, divorces, books, he came to Paris with his wife. He phoned her. It's me. She recognized him at once from the voice. He said, I just wanted to hear your voice. She said, it's me, hello. He was nervous, afraid, as before. His voice suddenly trembled. And with the trembling, suddenly, she heard again the voice of China. He knew she'd begun writing books, he'd heard about it through her mother whom he'd met again in Saigon. And about her younger brother, and he'd been grieved for her. Then he didn't know what to say. And then he told her. Told her that it was as before, that he still loved her, he could never stop loving her, that he'd love her until death.
- from "The Lover" by Marguerite Duras
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8. vasuki (1996)
oil on canvas
70 x 45 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
Why do we treat the fleeting day
with so much needless fear and sorrow?
It's in its nature not to stay:
Today is always gone tomorrow.
- from "Nothing Twice" by Wislawa Szymborska
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9. johnny (1997)
oil on canvas
48 x 24 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
I'll never forget where I came from. Because if you forget where you came from - then you don't know where you're going - and you're never gonna get there.
- unattributed quote
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10. ellen (2000)
oil on canvas
48 x 60 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
Act in repose; be at rest when you work; relish unflavored things. Great or small, frequent or rare, requite anger with virtue. Take hard jobs in hand while they are easy; and great affairs too while they are small. The troubles of the world cannot be solved except before they grow too hard. The business of the world cannot be done except while relatively small. The Wise Man, then, throughout his life does nothing great and yet achieves a greatness of his own.
- unattributed quote
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11. ki (1997)
oil on canvas
39 x 27 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
Since the medium was the message, the quality of this "information" was not held to matter.
- Robert Hughes
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12. sonnya (1998)
oil on canvas
60 x 60 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you choose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.
- from "Ham on Rye" by Charles Bukowski
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