Medium and Techniques: Drypoint
Leporello
Borders and Barbed Wire (ed. of 25)
The Swing Of The Pendulum (ed. of 30)
Nose 17
BAD DISGUISES 2 In the 1920s, Trotsky was airbrushed out of all photographs that showed him with Lenin. We are by now so familiar with…
Nose 16
ANGELINA BALLERINA My two daughters each had their few years at dance classes, though neither had the drive—nor the parental dedication—to make the transition onto…
Nose 15
ANNA PAVLOVA My older sister was a ballet devotee. She accumulated, over the years, at birthdays and as rewards for good schoolwork, a library of…
Untitled (Blue Snake Woman) by Andrzej Nowicki
Nose 13
OFFICIAL POLICE PORTRAIT Shostakovich wrote his opera, The Nose, based on Gogol’s story, in 1928. Shostakovich was twenty-two years old, just out of the Leningrad…
Nose 12
HIS MAJESTY, COMRADE NOSE There is a famous photograph of Lenin, taken early in the October Revolution, standing on the balcony of the Bolshevik headquarters…
Nose 11
BAD DISGUISES I There is a general principle in theatre for working with masks. A mask works by making us focus on everything that is…
Nose 10
PREPARING THE BED The hard ground The clean sheet. The dry point The spit bite The foul bite The hand wipe. The stained blanket The…