Yet, for all that, this represents in my head the road to that part of Kisangani in the Congo where I lived.
Painted ten years after I left -- a sketch in paint -- the trees urban, the rest imagination. Is that allowed?
2024 February Reflection takes place internally. Lots of thoughts to tidy up. These are articulated in their own language. The mind will go...
This reminds me of a quote in the front of the novel I am currently reading, which says: "By drawing a diagram, a ground plan of a house, a street plan to the location of a site, or a topographical map, one draws a 'logical two dimensional picture.' A 'logical picture' differs from a natural or realistic picture in that it rarely looks like the thing it stands for." -Robert Smithson, 'The Collected Writings'......I love this painting, and the fact that it represents the road to your home in the Congo -- more so than any more realistic or logical drawing or photo probably ever would.
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