Diane Arbus
A Jewish giant at home with his parents in the Bronx
N.Y. 1970
photograph
At the same time, they will find expression through some image that seems to have nothing to do with them-i.e. where you can deal with them because they are disguised. So your attempts to express the feeling of an experience directly, in the terms of the experience, will be blocked, false, cramped etc, and yet if at the time you wrote a story about witches & demons, or mechanical dogs, it would be full of wild feelings & you would feel the release. The emotions of a real situation are shy, but if they can find a mask they are shameless exhibitionists. (....) A feeling is always looking for a metaphor of itself in which it can reveal itself unrecognised.
from: Letters of Ted Hughes, to his daughter Frieda Hughes, February 12, 1995
Marenne Welten (NL)
Adolescent
from the series The Idea of a Kitchen
2020
40 x 35 cm
oil on linen
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