The allure of ephemera lies in its impermanent nature. It can, but it's not meant to last, and the imagination catches fire in the wisps of those embers. Nowhere is this more evident than in the recently closed (sorry, I only just learned of this) exhibition; "Margret: Chronicle of an Affair - May 1969 to December 1970". An affair can be fleeting as it is, and I think that's shown here by the documentation of detail and minutiae by the pair involved. You know that it can't go on forever, yet you have this need to create something more out of it, something that you can hold on to, long after it has let go of you.
For something such as this to emerge from a forgotten briefcase, dragging a past illicit passion into the light of a one-time future present, is nothing short of astounding.
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