"'I usually have strange encounters with animals. Of all kinds."

[moon_custafer]

I followed a link to this piece on the Australian painter Sally West because the Wikipedia entry on Ben Mendelsohn mentioned that she’d once painted his portrait, but what I really like is the beachscape at the top of the article, which apparently is more typical of her work. The article’s title is nice, too, though I find the body of the text a little… trying too hard to be poetic?

Hardly West’s fault, of course, if people write about her that way: Sally West: The Bird of Song with Claws of Paint

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[sovay]

The article’s title is nice, too, though I find the body of the text a little… trying too hard to be poetic?

"These palette knifes are the claws to West's bird of painterly song. West and her knifes are as inseparable as Todd and his razors; they are crucial extensions of her arm. They dictate the topography of her landscapes, which are invariably convulsive, as if in tsunamic upheaval."

I worry a bit about sounding like that. I agree it's not the artist's fault. I like her style.

The Mendelsohn portrait is quite good, even if I maintain that he is much more unusual-looking without the mustache.

[moon_custafer]

You don’t sound like that. This person sounds like a student who was given the assignment: “write a five-paragraph essay containing at least three metaphors and one literary allusion.”

[sovay]

You don’t sound like that. This person sounds like a student who was given the assignment: “write a five-paragraph essay containing at least three metaphors and one literary allusion.”

Reality check appreciated.

The allusion quota is deadly.