29 October 2015

Austerlitz




Three Men Walking
Mixed media with table and casters
Dimensions variable
October 2015


Rooms all painted grey and 'picture patience'.

Austerlitz told me that he sometimes sat here for hours, laying out these photographs or others from his collection, the wrong way up, as if playing patience, and that then, one by one, he turned them over, always with a new sense of surprise at what he saw...

Sebald, W G.  (2001).  Austerlitz.  London.  Penguin. Pp167-168.