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13. mirja (1999)
oil on canvas
60 x 60 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
A person may appear a fool and yet not be one. He may be guarding his wisdom carefully. Virtues are the fruit of self-discipline and do not drop from heaven of themselves as does rain or snow. Modesty is the foundation of all virtues. Let your neighbors discover you before you make yourself known to them.
- unattributed quote
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14. jenny (2002)
watercolor, gouache and ink on Arches, France watercolor paper
13 1/4 x 21 1/2 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
I'm fourteen. I'm a wind from nowhere. I can break your heart.
- from "The Kid" by Ai
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15. edgar (2002)
watercolor, gouache and ink on Arches, France watercolor paper
9 x 13 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
When grown older, we look back on the selfishness of the people who've been mixed up with our lives, we see it undeniably for what it was, as hard as steel or platinum and a lot more durable than time itself. As long as we're young, we manage to find excuses for the stoniest indifference, the most blatant caddishness, we put them down to emotional eccentricity or some sort of romantic inexperience. But later on, when life shows us how much cunning, cruelty, and malice are required just to keep the body at ninety-eight point six, we catch on, we know the score, we begin to understand how much swinishness it takes to make up a past. Just take a close look at yourself and the degree of rottenness you've come to. There's no mystery about it, no more room for fairy tales; if you've lived this long, it's because you've squashed any poetry you had in you. Life is keeping body and soul together.
- from "Journey To The End Of The Night" by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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16. matthew (2002)
watercolor, gouache and ink on Arches, France watercolor paper
13 x 21 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
All it takes is a little effort. Effort, effort! Why won't anybody make any?
- from "The Sheltering Sky" by Paul Bowles
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17. david (2002)
watercolor, gouache and ink on Arches, France watercolor paper
9 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
By imperceptible steps, art history gently drains away a painting's sheer wordless visceral force, turning it into an occasion for intellectual debate. What was once an astonishing object, thick with the capacity to mesmerize, becomes a topic for a quiz show, or a one-liner at a party, or the object of a scholar's myopic expertise. I am still very much interested in Bellini's painting. But the picture no longer visits me in my sleep, or haunts my thoughts, or intrudes on my walks in the countryside. It no longer matters to my life, only to my work.
- from "The Ivory Tower of Tearlessness by" James Elkins
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18. miles (2002)
watercolor, gouache and ink on Arches, France watercolor paper
13 x 21 3/8 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
I want to go soon and live away by the pond where I shall hear only the wind whispering among the reeds - It will be success if I shall have left myself behind, but my friends ask what I will do when I get there? Will it not be employment enough to watch the progress of the seasons?
- Henry David Thoreau
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