Subject: Re: Alsen's royal pain
From: LR Pearson, Arts 99 (lp9616@bristol.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 07:41:00 EST
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 19:06:07 EST ClokwrkOrj@aol.com wrote:
> I was walking down the streets of New York City on a sunny day. I noticed a
> young
> homeless man, about my own age, sitting shirtless on the street side. In his
> hands he held a long stick with a string tied to the end and a white paper
> cup dangling just above the pavement. Across his hairless chest was a long
> winding wound, traced by a line of jagged stitches. It ran about a foot long
> from just below his breast to beneath his navel. Something about the image
> awakened my whole being and I was overcome by the desire to take his picture.
> I needed this image with her forever. Perhaps it was his eyes.They were
> large, black, glazed eyes that looked into me until I could not breathe. It
> wasso quick, just a glimpse. I shudder to imagine that he exists somewhere,
> yet I can not look at him. Now I see him everywhere, his dark eyes gaze at me
> in everyone I see. Later I made a short film about him. It is very visual and
> difficult to explain but it consisted of intercutting shots of me and an
> actor I had dressed uplike him. Then there was a small scene wherein I sat
> next to him for a while, kissed him, sat some more, and left. HBO payed me
> 100$ for it. (yay) I hope to put it on actual film one day. Anyway, that wsa
> my little moment that keeps popping up now and then.
>
> becky
> -
Thanks, Becky. That was a lovely post.
Love, Lucy-Ruth
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LR Pearson, Arts 99
lp9616@bristol.ac.uk
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