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#AngelaOKeeffe

“And everything that did not happen but should have happened is there in the weight of it, in the shape of it across her shoulders, in the hang of it down her back; all of it there in the stitches, in the complicated pattern, in the one or two mistakes.”

#TheSitter
#AngelaOKeeffe

My husband used to say that if he couldn’t find in himself a feeling for a part of the subject he was painting, then he was compelled to leave that section of the painting blank. In the portraits of me there are many blanks.