{"id":192,"date":"2005-03-02T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-02T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/03\/the-gap-between-the-makeup-and-the-face\/"},"modified":"2005-03-02T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-02T22:46:00","slug":"the-gap-between-the-makeup-and-the-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/03\/the-gap-between-the-makeup-and-the-face\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gap Between the Makeup and the Face"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nM<\/i> was the first person I met to properly show me the logic of places which can only be experienced imaginatively. He is probably the most imaginative person I’ve ever met. M<\/i> was effortlessly creative. His best friend J<\/i> constantly berated him for laziness, and encouraged him to be productive, and not to do things that would ruin his health.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Thanks to M<\/i>, I truly appreciate Marcel Duchamp, although I was heading that way when I met him. Thanks to M<\/i> I play the game, Mornington Crescent<\/a><\/i>. I once walked into a pub in the Hornsey Road where he was deep in conversation with someone. I came up to him on his blind side, said the phrase quietly into his ear, and exited through the other door without a backward glance. He was staggered. It was one of the few times I felt truly able to give something back.<\/p>\n

My favourite place of M<\/i>‘s explication has to be the gap between the makeup and the face. Whenever I see makeup in any prominent striking ugly or beautiful way, I think of the gap. When I see faces in the street which are clearly constructions for convenience and every day use, I think of the gap. When I sense the distance between someone’s outer persona and inner psyche, I think of the gap. When I see makeup running angry black tracks down tearstained cheeks, I think of the gap. When I see a smudge of red on white cotton and know the person who smiles and kisses with those lips is now in another country on another continent half a world away, I think of the gap. Whenever they say on the Underground, “Mind The Gap”, which they do frequently, I think of the gap. But not between the train and the platform. I think of the gap between the makeup and the face.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

And then I think of the gap between<\/b> the gap between the makeup and the face, and my conception of it…<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

M was the first person I met to properly show me the logic of places which can only be experienced imaginatively. He is probably the most imaginative person I’ve ever met. M was effortlessly creative. His best friend J constantly berated him for laziness, and encouraged him to be productive, and not to do things […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}