
Derek Jarman: Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping
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The Slave and the Slaughter
When we had that student flat he moved in a great sort of art apparatus and he an easel lots of oil paint lots of paintings in progress rather leaden olive green romantic landscapes. I was reminded in modern nature about his first coloring book which was it wasn't a coloring book but he colored on it anyway which was of plants when they were stationed the the Jama family stationed in northern Italy. It's so moving reading for modern nature how much of that is immersed in that extraordinary place. We played charades and there was a dominating woman called Vera Russell who was God rest her soul who started something called the artist market she did as a child Robert Anya and the rest of us
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