in a moment

flatpicker  40" x 30"  gouache/paper

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eye, the wandering artist, received an unexpected, happy surprise email from his long lost friend nose.  last eye heard, nose had traveled to bali, had joined an ashram in india, driven a 1969 citroen d.s to australia, walked the outback, learned to surf and then fell off the edge of the world. that was in 1998 when nose was still a young man. eye is the same age as nose, they grew up together in the n.d.g. district of montreal during the 1960's, met in kindergarten when eye was building a tower made of tinker-toys. eye had obsessively constructed a tower that was bigger than anyone had ever seen and was having an anxiety attack when he was about to place the last piece, a golden ring, on the top. nose knew that eye was falling apart, couldn't do it and stepped in,  took the ring from eye's hand, without a second thought placed it on top.  eye smiled, nose smiled back.

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