Thursday, 7 July 2016

The group read through to the end oft he begetting list: “et vocabitur nomen eius Emmanuel” (15.1869).

After this, artist and long-standing member of the reading groups Cahterine Meyer, sent this illustration with the following comment: 

I loved the idea of the “new womanly man“ and chose to render the episode of Dr Dixon reading the bill of health. Bloom is in the centre of the picture as a rather quaint fellow on the whole, coy though not feebleminded in the medical sense. He has an arched mouth but with no lipstick yet, and the feature seems to be very harmless. A good man on the whole. But somehow he feels a pang of conscience and, therefore, has to scourge himself every Saturday.

The last of the three painted Blooms shows him as a new womanly man, who is about to have a baby. The crowd in the background and Dr Dixon at the very left of the painting  frame the centre in dark colours so that the light is on the three central characters.

© Catherine Meyer, Zürich 2016