Art · Reflection
LEONORA CARRINGTON ~ MAGIC
28 March 2011
You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It’s not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away and I can’t even remember your name.”
Leonora Carrington (The Hearing Trumpet)
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