This man has made his mark, if that’s impact / …

Detail from B&W photograph of Anthony Micallef Animal Head (Oil on linen ) 140 cm x 140 cm Lazarides catalogue of show in Sept – October 2009, p.16. When I tried writing this I began to  imagine the case, common enough in Caribbean slavery, of white male rape of young enslaved black men and boys. … More This man has made his mark, if that’s impact / …

‘Ecce Homo!’ To ‘have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part, …’. He changed me.

Caravaggio’s Ecce Homo (1605) available via: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_homo Let Wikipedia have the first word of explanation of my choice of title: Ecce homo! (this links to the full Wikipedia article). And let this happen before I justify, as a non-believer and atheist, the choice of the Christian tradition (and in particular, that of the High Anglican … More ‘Ecce Homo!’ To ‘have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part, …’. He changed me.