Mark James

Another of the early and rejected Bernhard Aaronsohn-Ari Ben Aaron pictures for "The Argaman Quintet"; Mark is a very minor character in two of the books, "A Little Oil & Root" and "The Hourglass", and frankly, twenty years after inventing him to look like this (I stole the image from one of those "Teach Yourself Sketching" books, as I recall), I no longer imagine him looking like this at all: far too European (unless that's just the 1960s hair-style), where he became much more Semitic-Middle Eastern as my ideas for the novel developed.

Interesting to see a white-and-black version of "The Face of God" amongst the Ben Aaron Abstracts on the wall; if I were making the painting today, it would be irresistible to use details from some of "The Argaman Paintings", in exactly the way that "The Argaman Paintings" use details from so many other painters. The abstracts here seem to me little better than space-fillers without theme, idea or purpose.

Interesting too - to me anyway - just how many different ways there are to go about the act of portraiture, and how many times I have changed my approach along the years, as several before and after this one on this blog remind me.

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