And then the sublime...
I got a package today, from Emma who is now in China, but the package was mailed just before she left. As if I don't miss her enough without reminders of how well she "gets me."
She sent me salt water taffy from Rohobeth, MD. A keychain.
But mostly she sent this odd and amazing book, THE ROAD IS WIDER THAN LONG, an image diary from the Balkans, written, photographed, and painted by Roland Penrose, a surrealist, in 1938. This Getty edition is so beautiful, and Emma and I have been planning such a trip as this... to find our family graves in Moldova.
"She cuts her finger while mixing salad.
Nobody could understand."
"How imprudent of you to have died."
"Then the journeys alone that fill the world become fertile."
She sent me salt water taffy from Rohobeth, MD. A keychain.
But mostly she sent this odd and amazing book, THE ROAD IS WIDER THAN LONG, an image diary from the Balkans, written, photographed, and painted by Roland Penrose, a surrealist, in 1938. This Getty edition is so beautiful, and Emma and I have been planning such a trip as this... to find our family graves in Moldova.
"She cuts her finger while mixing salad.
Nobody could understand."
"How imprudent of you to have died."
"Then the journeys alone that fill the world become fertile."
2 Comments:
i want to check this book out--does it have lee miller's photographs in them? i've been interested in her for a while, and don't know much about her. there's this strangely compelling self-portrait of her in hitler's tub...
and yes, emma is pretty great. what a good gift.
i think the pics are all his, but lee miller is in most of em... and the book was made for her, as a gift, and the little reproduction is copied that way...
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