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Seeing deeply what is in front of you is at the heart of Michals’s work. When he started writing on his photographs, it was his attempt to go beyond the image. “I had to write about all the things you couldn’t see,” he said. “The artist has to make a leap of faith to insight, otherwise it’s just description.”


The text reads: “I think it must be there / Where the torso sits on and into the hips / Those twin delineating curves / Feminine in grace, girdling the trunk / Guiding the eye downwards / To their intersection / the point of pleasure.”



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