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May 21, 2006

A sense of threat and vulnerability is how I read the image today.

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Charles Blackman, Running home, 1954

An interview.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 11:43 PM | | Comments (2)
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Interesting how we might read a different meaning into the imagery of the cigarette advertising...in today's context, it adds to the sense of threat, whereas it was quite a usual corner-shop sight back then.
I have always read Blackmans works as depicting vulnerability and impending danger, like de Chirico's paintings, mystery and melancholy and so forth.
wonderful images, all of his works.

Fiona,
your'e right.

The advertising on yesterday's corner shop, when interpreted from, today signifies the poisoned world of Big Tobacco.We are vulnerable and threated by cancer.