We are all blind…

‘We are all blind to our own profiles, in the same way that we don’t know the backs of our own heads’ Tacita Dean on Philip Guston

In all the time I knew her, she had been highly sprung. She lived with and without light, sang with the birds, and when her time came, stopped in a fraction of a second, completely unwound.

A strange form appears on the horizon in this painting. Is it the heel of a shoe or a horseshoe? It could be the parted hair and forehead Guston painted to symbolise Mckim. He described the transformative potential of the painting process to the poet Bill Berkson: You're painting a shoe; you start painting the sole, and it turns into a moon; you start painting the moon, and it turns into a piece of bread. Paintings of Philip Guston

He has heavy hands

Following last years earthquake, a lot of people got married, but and equal number split up, realising life was too short to spend with the wrong person

The simple text message, #REL1=ON, was enough to blow the vehicle to smithereens. The time was 2.58pm. Assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia