My work 'Friends who haven't seen each other for a long time, hugging and kissing, naked' was inspired by a scene I witnessed in a park when two men were holding hands and kissing. Behind them were a father and his son who asked why the two men were kissing. The father's answer was: "They are friends who haven't seen each other for a long time." This work commemorates those two men.

In the old park, lonely and bound by frost, Two ghosts recalled the perished days they lost.

"Do you remember our old, mad delight?" "Why would you have me think of it tonight?"

"Still at my name does your heart throb and glow? And in your dreams your soul still sees me?"--"No."

"O goodly days of joy that we have seen When our lips clung …" "It may have been!"

"How blue was heaven and how our hope outspread!" "To a black sky those perished hopes have fled!"

They walk recalling a wild, graceless day, And only night can hear the words they say.

(from "Sentimental Dialogue" by Paul Verlaine)

JPEG | 12288 x 8190 | 300 dpi

November 2023