Anodyne
Saturday, November 09, 2019
 
"[A] reconciliation, or perhaps comprehension, in the full sense of the word, of the various dualities or paradoxes in her life: joy and rage, vastness and containment, chaos and order, the furious intimacy of her closest personal relationships and the happiness of her relationship to nature; her place, within her chosen French landscape, in an American tradition 'of a somber, nature-bound aloneness'; the urban versus the natural elements of her landscapes; her resilience in the face of severe physical disability and her 'inordinate fear of death'; the intense physical invitations of her canvases and her gestures of brutal, self-protective rejection in personal encounters, even with relative strangers--"

(Lydia Davis)
- posted by cjb @ 9:13 AM


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