Some months ago Sunil Laal, a young and rising Kerala artist, was in search of a temporary studio. I offered him the use of my out-house for a few weeks.
Sunil painted a diptych, “The Hidden Flower”, and kindly gave the pictures to me.
Today my carpenter, Sebastian, came to hang them in my hall.
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These events are rarely quite as simple as envisaged: my concrete walls proved to be exceedingly tough and a more powerful drill had to be fetched; the furniture needed rearranging into new and more pleasing symmetries once the pictures were up. But the task is now happily complete.
Sebastian has been hastily dispatched upstairs: to hang more pictures in the upper hall and move a wall cabinet to a different room. His wife has just delivered a new baby. I don’t know when he will be free again..
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