Giacometti in the Desert

The Model, Sligo

I remember exactly that day in 1945, at the cinema in Montparnasse. I was watching the news. Suddenly I didn’t see the image on the screen but moving spots instead. I looked at my neighbor. It was fantastic. By contrast he took on an enormous depth. As if I saw the world for the first time, without the veil that was there before...


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