Escale
“He has no suitcase. That was the first thing I set down, and everything else follows from it: a man without luggage in front of an aeroplane is no longer…
€2,400 — Le Yack
“He has no suitcase. That was the first thing I set down, and everything else follows from it: a man without luggage in front of an aeroplane is no longer a departure, it is a stopover — an escale, that dead time between two flights when there is nothing to do but wait. I spent more hours on the raking light than on him. It is the shadows that tell the story: his and the aircraft’s stretch side by side across the concrete, almost the same length. The polished aluminium gathers up everything around it, the sky and the hangar alike; it is the only living surface in the canvas, and it belongs to the machine, not to the man. I painted him from behind, as I often do, so as not to decide for him.…
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