Write-Place

                                                                            Preface   If there is but one thing that you take from me, one piece of advice that I can give, that you will receive without question let it be this – don’t go back. Whether in your mind or in your physical being, for whatever you remember is not there. Perhaps it never was. Perhaps memories do not exist and those thoughts we keep preserved behind a protective film of the past are but wild imaginings of an ageing mind  For I know that your mind will cruelly twist your carefully kept images. It will turn the roads you knew to dead ends, cul de sacs to your truths. It will obliterate the landmarks you knew so well and rebuild them in a way that is un-recognisable to you. You may have been torn down and rebuilt, but you will still be you. It is part of life.  A rite of passage. A lesson not to be ignored. 

  Henri Matisse (1869 – 1954) Matisse he was an artist of the nineteenth century He painted thoughts and feelings for all the world to see Some said his work was ludicrous, not inspiring or smart Some said he was a madman, this could never be called art. He started off in pencils drawing pictures of still life And then went on to portraits of his mistresses and wife The artists there around him called their work Impressionist But Matisse’s attempts at this were more inclined to Realist. Henri Matisse (1869 – 1954) Matisse he was an artist of the nineteenth century He painted thoughts and feelings for all the world to see Some said his work was ludicrous, not inspiring or smart Some said he was a madman, this could never be called art. He started off in pencils drawing pictures of still life And then went on to portraits of his mistresses and wife The artists there around him called their work Impressionist But Matisse’s attempts at this were more inclined to Realist. Then colour