I painted this for David Salle,Karole Armitagecollaboration. The poem is by Rilke. Torso ofan Archaic Apollo. I was inspired by Kourosat Metropolitan Museum of Art the same way.Never will we know his fabulous headwhere the eyes apples slowly ripened. Yethis torso glows; a candleabrum setbefore his gaze which is pushed back and hid.Restrained and shining.Else the curving breastCould not get thus blind you. Nor through the soft turn of the loins could this smileeasily have passed into the bright groinswhere the genitals burned. Else stood thisstone a fragment and defaced With lucentbody from the shoulders falling,too short,not gleaming like a lion's fell.Nor would this star have shaken the shackles off,bursting with light, until thereis no place that does not see you.YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR LIFE,Rilke .......
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