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| Nude with White Scarf Matisse 1909 Statens Museum for Kunst |
It’s time to own up to my love affair with Matisse. I am blatantly guilt-free despite the duration of this relationship. My husband is a generous man. He turns a blind eye to the longing gazes that I cast at another.
A few weeks ago I had the unadulterated pleasure of spending an hour with 18 pieces of Matisse’s work in a quiet museum gallery, virtually alone, as if a universal message gone out to leave us alone. Fate intervened I suppose.
Even after so many years into this relationship something inexplicable happened. Molecules shifted and I left the room a changed woman. What happened there was deeply internal. The words to understand and so begin describe this experience remain unknown to me. But this week after a long time away from the studio it was through the end of a brush that the experience began to take some form. My breathing has finally returned to normal.
