The Boundaries of Sight

“…in a chair with one person, one person only, but one person who changes, you see one inch of flesh only; its nerves, fibers, the sullen or quick flow of blood on it; but nothing entire…”

Virginia Woolf
The Waves

 
 

Portrait of Charles Haslewood Shannon and his longtime companion Charles de Souzy Ricketts, by Jacques Émile Blanche