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Eye See You
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Sexting was different in the old days.
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Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh.”
― William Butler Yeats
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Meanwhile in the 19th century, you’d lop off an ear…
ahh the good days!
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This has been the subject matter of the Australian artist Ruth Hutchinson. Their meticulous water colour paintings were on tagua nut considered a vegetable form of ivory - over 60 paintings of friends and acquaintances eye! One is mine.
Ruth’s work is always exquisitely crafted and both beautiful and confronting.
Yes, this is one of their photo realistic paintings:
Mounted on a gallery wall they are both small and striking in their verisimilitude:
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“Jacuzzi farts may fade in the turbulent waters of memory but some farts will linger in the minds eye”
Not sure if I can accurately attribute this quote but I suspect it may be Spinoza.
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Possibly. 17th Century Amsterdam was quite the place for swingin’ hot tub parties.
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The mind’s nose, surely.
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Ye olde ocular intercourse.
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