The Daughter (2015)
“I layer on viridian green and raw umber. The purple and deep brown of the sea lifts up to the edge of the sky as if it would swallow it. I stipple white spume along the crest of a wave but mostly I want the dark heaving shapes of water. Even as the painting takes shape, I feel the rope it is offering me. I imagine it is rough with salt and wet under my hands. I stop from time to time to put wood on the fire, swallow wine, a sandwich, pacing as I eat.
Sometime after midnight the picture lets... me go. The fire is flickering low, and the room feels warm and safe, though outside the storm is still raging. Last year our lives were destroyed in a raging, pitiless storm. I’d clung on then because I thought we would find her and because of the boys. Theo and Ed kept me going.
BRISTOL, 2009 ONE DAY AFTER Theo came home from school in the late afternoon. He had bought fish and chips in a white paper bag translucent with grease, and the smell of vinegar made me feel sick again.MoreLess
Sometime after midnight the picture lets... me go. The fire is flickering low, and the room feels warm and safe, though outside the storm is still raging. Last year our lives were destroyed in a raging, pitiless storm. I’d clung on then because I thought we would find her and because of the boys. Theo and Ed kept me going.
BRISTOL, 2009 ONE DAY AFTER Theo came home from school in the late afternoon. He had bought fish and chips in a white paper bag translucent with grease, and the smell of vinegar made me feel sick again.MoreLess
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