You are in love I suppose and bedrooms and there is pregnancy, there is a sort of happy feeling now I suppose, you have made preparations -- imagine, I am only moving apartment soon and already feel am living mostly in a new space and era because the future is being defined mostly in that way but for incident [THAT HAS ALL HAPPENED NOW, WELL DONE, YOU MOVED SUCCESSFULLY] -- that is the baby being stillborn / why explain, I have a book to quote from: "Giacometti - Myth, Magic, and the Man" (I would not pick that title) by Laurie Wilson, it is an exhaustive study of Giacometti, at first I thought a bit too focused on freud analysis but now I think that then, at first, I was being unreasonable, it happens.
I propose that one of the key strands for Invisible Object is Cuno Amiet's painting Hope, the central panel of his triptych eventually retitled Hope-Transitoriness (1900-4). In Amiet's Hope, Anne Amiet is depicted holding out her hands while joyously awaiting the birth of their firstborn child, the baby boy in the horizontal panel above the hopeful mother. After the tragic stillbirth of their only biological child, Amiet added the two side panels of himself and his wife as skeletal figures and changed the title to Hope-Transitoriness. The triptych was a statement to the world of the Amiet's deepest feelings, exhibited in public like a shrine many times and painted in four versions. It remained in the Amiet's bedroom as a poignant reminder of their dead child. Anna Amiet's hopeful hands are awaiting the child who never arrived.
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