I think of the art of painting as another way of seeing. Another approach to reality. Another porthole, as it were, in the submerged bathysphere of our consciousness.
Louis de Brocquy
The happy accident in Boonah. I stumbled across a monograph of works by Louis le Brocquy. His head series from the 1980s.
Portholes in the submerged bathysphere of our consciousness. I'm down there, tapping on the glass, looking in.
Louis le Brocquy, 'The Human Head: Notes on Painting & Awareness', 18th Distinguished International Department Lecture, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Dublin, 14 November 2005) Edited from Actes du Colloque 'Corps-Poésie-Peinture', Faculté des Lettres de Nice Métaphores, No. 5 (Nice, February 8, 1979)
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