IF
IF (2005) oil on canvas with pencil 4 canvases 30 x 30 cm
POA
The steel bridge (from a photograph taken in May 1943). One of the pieces of writing in the journal is the poem 'If' by Rudyard Kipling. It was one of my father's favourite poems (he was always quoting from it). In the context of their plight, it must have been an important text. As the image of the bridge fades, so my father's writing gets stronger.