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| Anonymous German Designer John Deakin Photographs (portrait of Francis Bacon) 1996 screenprint (exhibition poster) Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| Rineke Dijkstra Montemor, Portugal, May 1, 1994 1994 C-print Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| Magnus Enckell Portrait of sculptor Madeleine Jouvray 1893-94 watercolor and gouache on paper Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki |
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| Francis Cotes Portrait of a Lady 1751 pastel Huntington Library and Art Museum, San Marino, California |
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| Leendert van der Cooghen Portrait of a Man ca. 1670 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Peter Boy the Elder Miniature Portrait of a Gentleman ca. 1690 enamel Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Hans von Aachen Portrait of sculptor Giambologna ca. 1600 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Flemish Artist Portrait of a Young Man (possibly René Descartes) ca. 1625 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Franz Krüger Portrait Study of a Young Man 1826 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Pietro Labruzzi Portrait of architect Giuseppe Valadier ca. 1795 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Erna Lendvai-Dircksen Young Man ca. 1930 gelatin silver print Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Guillaume Lethière Young Woman with a Portfolio ca. 1799 oil on canvas Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts |
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| Édouard Manet Portrait of Berthe Morisot 1873 oil on canvas (cut down by Manet from full length) Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris |
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| Man Ray Ernest Hemingway 1923 gelatin silver print Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Jan van Mieris Portrait of a Lady ca. 1680 oil on panel Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki |
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| Hans Holbein the Younger Portrait of Hermann Hillebrandt von Wedigh 1533 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
Persona
The mud-brown river is clotted with débris.
And what can I do with these dark adhesions,
And what can I do with these dark adhesions,
These unmoored pieces of the night?
They breathe their black into my day –
They breathe their black into my day –
What can I do with these dark adhesions?
If dreams are rooms in which my self accretes,
If dreams are rooms in which my self accretes,
They also breathe their black into my day.
As a mannikin, I set myself to work
In dreams or rooms in which my self accretes.
See me there with the pained carved face.
As a mannikin, I've set myself to work
Until the lost loved one appears
And sees me there with the pained, carved face.
In dreams or rooms in which my self accretes.
See me there with the pained carved face.
As a mannikin, I've set myself to work
Until the lost loved one appears
And sees me there with the pained, carved face.
I cannot get these wooden limbs to work
Until the lost loved one appears
To shrink at the slyness of my puppet-smile.
I cannot get these wooden limbs to work.
Nothing is different from nothing, I say,
Until the lost loved one appears
To shrink at the slyness of my puppet-smile.
I cannot get these wooden limbs to work.
Nothing is different from nothing, I say,
And shrink at the slyness of my puppete's smile.
Chrysanthemum dragons shimmer in the room.
But nothing is different from nothing, I say,
But nothing is different from nothing, I say,
These unmoored pieces of the night,
These chrysanthemum dragons shimmer in the room –
These chrysanthemum dragons shimmer in the room –
Still the mud-brown river is clotted with débris.
– Caitríona O'Reilly, The Sea Cabinet (2006)