WOMAN WAS NOT ALONE Niina Lehtonen Braun & Mirka Raito

—But! The mail came last night just before bedtime! I heard a slam and went to have a look: a light blue envelope. On the rear side a picture of a woman, with colourful balloons floating out of her stomach………I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it’s ripe; it will be exquisite by September…………… A letter is also a way of loving. I’m inspired by the ones I write to. Most often by their thoughts? …………… And what could I mention about the soul of a model – there they sit and someone gives them something from what surrounds them, what radiates from them, softens everything and this is what one wishes to paint…… but a human has so much more than their thoughts, something they are not aware of consciously………. I need to use three or even five dots, they include the reaches/flames that we wrote and which don’t fit in even by shoving, how could one place all the years in a row there is just no way no way……….


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