the chance

Lise MacDermott
The Chance, 2017
Painting
25cmx25cm
£30

But I, I am a crazy old  man, alone with his books and his beer and his dog.  I have been a clerk, a pedlar and a seller of cars. I have been ignorant and scholar of note. Pock-marked and ugly I have wandered the streets and slept in parks.  I have been bankrupt and handsome and a splendid con man.  I have been a river of poisonous  silver mercury, without form or substance, yet I carry with me this one pain, this one yearning, that I love you my lady with all my heart.  And on evenings when the water is calm and the birds dive amongst the whitebait, my eyes swell with tears as I think of you sitting on a chair beside me, weeping in a darkened room.  (Peter Carey - The Fat Man in History) Lise MacDermott