Skip to content

Shortlisted

June 10th, 2010

Daniel Pontius

Tim II  by David Eichenberg, 2009 © David Eichenberg

Harry  by Michael Gaskell, 2010 © Michael Gaskell

Last Portrait of Mother by Daphne Todd, 2009 © Daphne Todd

The National Portrait Gallery for the BP Portrait Award 2010.

This morning I had been reading Joan Didion, After Henry, in the collection of non-fiction, “We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order To Live, ” 2006.  I went back to reread the following sentence after I came across these portraits: 

I suppose that what I really wanted to say that day at my daughter’s school is that we never reach a point at which our lives lie before us as a clearly marked open road, never have and never should expect a map to the years ahead, never do close those circles that seem, at thirteen and fourteen and nineteen so urgently in need of closing (P 594).

No comments yet

Leave a Reply

Basic HTML is allowed. Your email address will not be published.

Subscribe to this comment feed via RSS

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.