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Nude #1

July 21, 2017 by Chris

I took up the practice of meditation.
Each morning I sat on the floor in front of my sofa
and chanted bits of old Latin prayers.

De profundis clamavi ad te Domine.
Each morning a vision came to me.
Gradually I understood that these were naked glimpses of my soul.

I called them Nudes.
Nude #1. Woman alone on a hill.
She stands into the wind.

It is a hard wind slanting from the north.
Long flaps and shreds of flesh rip off the woman’s body and lift
and blow away on the wind, leaving

an exposed column of nerve and blood and muscle
calling mutely through lipless mouth.

From The Glass Essay by Anne Carson

July 21, 2017 /Chris
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This site is written and put together by me, Christopher Thorpe. I'm a Melbourne based designer and photographer creating objects and systems which are beautiful, usable, and engaged in the environment around them.

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