MICHAEL ATTEWELL

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Vermeer had a theme like this,

'Maidservant pouring Milk'.

Mine is totally synthetic

So nylon to his silk.

However,

Painting from inside my head,

(Remembered or imagined),

What I include is my intent.

While -

If you paint only things you see

It means that you won't invent.

Worse still to copy photographs, where,

No matter what you choose,

Someone else has chosen

The ideas that you use.

Paraphrasing Jesus, 'By their fruits they

Shall be known'. . . but whose fruits?

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