Thursday, 11 August 2016

The next reading will be picked up at, “The sins oft he past (in a medley of voices)” (15.3027).

Catherine Meyer sends in the following image to illustrate the reading, with a few accompanying words: 

The Bella Cohen paragraph seemed an obvious choice. It is full of hints and descriptions and I have made a charcoal drawing of it.

Bella is dressed in an ivory gown, her eyes are deeply carboned, she has a dark fan and a sprouting moustache. Bloom has been humiliated by Bella and has to kneel down to lace her hoof.

In the background the devil is in the door, Richie Goulding sitting is in a chair and indefinable next to him are Zoe and Kitty.

But the main topic is the rendering of Bloom, who is enslaved and treated as an inferior character. I painted him three times in a kneeling position, face covered and hiding his lust and reluctance.

Not really a summery picture but a rendering that tells a long story about human beings and their wrong ways.

Catherine Meyer © Zürich 2016