Text II - ‘…All but one page of this text was burned by me in 1922.’ History of the printing of Seven Pillars: Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935 “Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances.” Shapshots of the Arabian desert, barbarous and beautiful.” The intent was of the images, to encapsulate a feeling. In the reconstruction of a past memory, I photographed what I remember through the distance of time. The images of the desert have stuck with me, though muddled by time, the purity of the landscape perpetual. I remember a vacant climate, a vast expanse that even at such a young age was perceptibly inhospitable. My grandfather sat next to me and pointed out the boundaries of the revolt on the map above the sofa, it was always the centerpiece of his discourse. Artist’s statement: “I recall a movie from memory, something I had seen in my childhood, the memory indefinite.
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