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Painting on Silk
- University of South Carolina Press
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Painting on Silk after“The Ghost of Oyuki” Art bares the beauty that we cannot speak, so I paint what I remember to forget, the way you brushed your face white, careful with the curved lines, nape of your neck. To paint is to know layers up close, brushstrokes of brown that shadow your brow; curve of your lips, down. I stand back to make sense of the lines there on silk, to understand your body from a distance never practiced before. 63 ...