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Remembering Artists From Another Time: Andre Masson

Artist, Andre Masson, Paris, France.

The cadence that belongs to the march of time- -the cadence of possibilities: Possibilities not mine but imagined in a city called Paris.

Every city has had a chronicler of sway: great cities big and small have had many strollers with eyes.  Paris’s history is like a voluminous waltz within moments of centrality and focus: Imagine if you try a chimpanzee atop a Parisian Metro sign. Imagine if you try, the nature of Paris that is real and elusive. There, forgotten and remembered memories pose for here and now. There is a unique cadence in every city on every planet- -Its rhythm is laced to the one or one hundred billion who have been or will be hurtled through our universe or another’s.

The history of maps, are a map of men and women- -Today’s yesterdays have many maps. My day began at the former home of the dramatist Molière’s for lunch. The day partially ended at another moment- -The Surrealist André Masson hosted me for coffee, cake and a portrait session- -With links to Miro, Dali and Picasso my day became “…merrily, merrily, merrily merrily, Life is but a dream.” Another map to my future’s........

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