Anna, Arranged Sitting for her portrait, Anna prepares for death: idle hands, black dress, steel gaze, spine straight; the pose a stiffness she can’t shake. She wishes Whistler would work faster— the room is drafty; her bones ache. He was raised to be unsentimental. He draws the drapes, elaborates a bit of lace; mixes greys as if his grief might be constrained; reminds himself: a model is a nesting doll of shapes; art isn’t life— it just suggests. This face is not his mother’s face, and yet… painting her brow, her nose, her neck, Whistler’s aesthetic distance vacillates. Violeta Garcia-Mendoza Violeta Garcia-Mendoza is writer, photographer, and teacher. She lives with her family in Western Pennsylvania. More of her work can be found at https://www.violetagarciamendoza.com
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AGGIE L PIAMPIANO
7/25/2021 06:03:38 pm
STUNNING! XO
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