Fitful night - this rigid composition disturbs me. Is it just a question of filling in now? yet what else, other than leave it unfinished - or overpaint - God knows why this should make me anxious. Accordingly took a long bath before starting and then carried on till coffee, returned after. Its ok, its coming to life, the colours are dancing bright. Issue with an arm of the ballerina to be addressed; the other figures are working. I'd left a space for another character which was to be death or someone sweeping the carousel and not structured anything there - now find its like a box on the side of the roundabout, dont they have them? Think so - and it serves as looking like a doorway through which all those on the roundabout must pass.
Watched the procession at 11.00 of the ex-combatants and those going to the monument to commemorate the dead of the european wars. They passed the end of the impasse in groups, with the usual martial music of the loudspeaker from the gendarmes car - great procession, danse macabre - a video may have served this idea better than this painting.
Hungry. Thought I was nauseous with all this death stuff but just hunger.Lunch.
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