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This picture is very important for me.
What is special about this is that it is a
kind of symbol of the nostalgia and
distance of childhood. It has a kind of
decrepit splendor, which is faraway
behind this ironwork. The two figures on
the high posts preside over reality in their
forbidding way and the establish a very
real distance between today and the past.
And how we see the past.
Publication excerpt from Louise Bourgeois, Album, New York, Peter Blum Edition, 1994.
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