Alberto Giacometti was inspired to start his series of ethereal, long bronze sculptures when he glimpsed the long shadow of an artist against a wall in Paris in the 1930’s. On my recent trip to the US I followed various shadows in the northern hemisphere light that is so different from that near the equator in Thailand.
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