Don`t talk to me about Matisse
the European style of 1900, the tradition of the studio
where the nude style woman reclines forever
on a sheet of blood.

Talk to me instead about the culture generally
how the murderers were sustained
by the beauty robbed of savages: to our remote
villages the painters came, and our white-washed
mud-huts were splattered with gunfire. – Michael Ondaatje

Don`t talk to me about Matisse
the European style of 1900, the tradition of the studio
where the nude style woman reclines forever
on a sheet of blood.

Talk to me instead about the culture generally
how the murderers were sustained
by the beauty robbed of savages: to our remote
villages the painters came, and our white-washed
mud-huts were splattered with gunfire. – Michael Ondaatje

Don`t talk to me about Matisse
the European style of 1900, the tradition of the studio
where the nude style woman reclines forever
on a sheet of blood.

Talk to me instead about the culture generally
how the murderers were sustained
by the beauty robbed of savages: to our remote
villages the painters came, and our white-washed
mud-huts were splattered with gunfire. – Michael Ondaatje

Don`t talk to me about Matisse
the European style of 1900, the tradition of the studio
where the nude style woman reclines forever
on a sheet of blood.

Talk to me instead about the culture generally
how the murderers were sustained
by the beauty robbed of savages: to our remote
villages the painters came, and our white-washed
mud-huts were splattered with gunfire. – Michael Ondaatje

Don`t talk to me about Matisse
the European style of 1900, the tradition of the studio
where the nude style woman reclines forever
on a sheet of blood.

Talk to me instead about the culture generally
how the murderers were sustained
by the beauty robbed of savages: to our remote
villages the painters came, and our white-washed
mud-huts were splattered with gunfire. – Michael Ondaatje

…sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us. – Michael Ondaatje

…sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us. – Michael Ondaatje

…sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us. – Michael Ondaatje

…sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us. – Michael Ondaatje

…sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us. – Michael Ondaatje