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Whilst I’m on a pause from things, hither are 3 meditations - on ageing too embarrassment, infirmity too fearfulness too revelatory celebration! In this gild - Maria Lassnig, Philip Larkin too Leonora Carrington. In their ain ways, all are provocative too sublime. Lassnig is exhibited HERE. The wonderful Hearing Trumpet - well, you lot tin purchase it online - too for those of us working inwards the context of ageing too institutionalisation - it's a wonderful treat.

Maria Lassnig, Hospital 2005, stone oil on canvas, 150 x 200 cm © Maria Lassnig Foundation

Heads inwards the Women's Ward

On pillow afterwards pillow lies

The wild white pilus too staring eyes;

Jaws stand upward open; necks are stretched

With every tendon sharply sketched;

A bearded oral fissure talks silently

To somebody no i else tin see.

Sixty years agone they smiled

At lover, husband, first-born child.

Smiles are for youth. For onetime historic catamenia come

Death's terror too delirium.”

Philip Larkin, Collected Poems

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