![]() I was making a record and his face was already only a record of his life. His life was now as finite as the rectangle of paper on which I was drawing, but within it, in a way infinitely more mysterious than any drawing, his character and destiny had emerged. I wept whilst I strove to draw with complete objectivity.Īs I drew his mouth, his brows, his eyelids, as their specific forms emerged with lines from the whiteness of the paper, I felt the history and the experience which had made them as they were. I was the last ever to look on that face I was drawing. Of all that I could see only the drawing would remain. ![]() People talk of freshness of vision, of the intensity of seeing for the first time, but the intensity of seeing for the last time is, I believe, greater. ![]() Turning to us, he reads a version of ‘Drawn to That Moment’, his 1976 essay about sketching next to his father’s coffin: In a 1985 episode of Mike Dibb and Chris Rawlence’s Channel 4 TV series About Time, John Berger takes down a drawing of his father, Stanley, from the wall.
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