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Richard Aronowitz was born in 1970 to an English father and a German-Jewish mother and grew up in rural Gloucestershire. He studied Modern Languages at Durham and Heidelberg universities and Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art. He works for Sotheby's in London and lives in Cambridge.

Drawing A Perfect Circle

It is deceptively simple; it is not simple

at all. Too many people begin by putting

pencil to paper. They will lose their way,

veer off course, their circle will spiral

inwards or outwards, growing too small

 

or too large for itself, instead of the fine

tongue from its mouth touching the tip

of its tail in a perfect and endless coiling.

Do not begin with the paper, do not

start with the pencil in your hand. Think;

 

conjure up a full moon like a burnished

sixpence, let the midsummer sun burn itself

onto the retina of your mind’s eye. Now,

putting pencil to paper with your eyes

closed, just draw what you see.

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