Natalie 2

  

Katja volunteered to do Natalie’s hair and make up…she also came up with the scarf.

What I thought would be a half-hour session outside turned into a three hour one which only ended because of the rain and the boys’ inability to listen.

Studio

 

The ‘studio’ couldn’t be more simple:
a stool, a lamp, a black curtain and a perfect subject.

Marisa’s girls

 

 

Natalie

 

Natalie sat for me for two hours on a cold day in a drafty corner.

 

 

 

 

 

The poem reads:

‘promises she speaks of

and waits for someone to understand

writing words on pictures

taking pictures of words

that were once sewn together but not now

 

a smile is natural, uncapturable

patient in the window

waiting

 

sewn together

promises and rainbows may remain unbroken

in black and brown with red and grey’