the word for this life

an original drawing on found paper

6 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches
6.375 x 9.375 inches

ink brush directly to found paper, with a poem written around

packaged for gift giving, with foam board backing in a clear sleeve

meant for a frame

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The word for this life is avaricious.

One thing I notice from old photos is
how much people just stood and stared
or laid around
you can tell a lot about a person from the size
of their eyes
distortion identifiers
vibrations in sunlight
dignity signalling
gentlemen with all
the best mistakes
friendly deceivers
professional bathers
new girls with night sounds and
changing points of view
early morning transit biographies
arms hanging by their sides
knotted fingers
hair parted in
the middle
as if there was anywhere else
now no one waits in the stairway.

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the found paper is a page torn from a discarded physics textbook (in Romanian, I believe)

three quotes also come to mind ...

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
— Alice Walker

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