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A sleight of hand

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A sleight of hand

and does it matter?

Richard Partridge
Mar 18, 2023
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A sleight of hand

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There was a sleight of hand at play 
you’d clocked it just a while ago.
Now you could not help but see it. 
A Muller-Lyer or Fedex arrow.

Had you been tricked all along
was there deception along the way?
Was this your very own mistake
or had you just been led astray?

What is true?
Who’s to say,
and does it matter
either way?

Photo taken in the Tate St.Ives gallery in Cornwall on the Nikon d750


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Mar 18Liked by Richard Partridge

I’m hoping you will take a few minutes to read “Something Big Happened Today” on my blog:

https://open.substack.com/pub/gbyakys/p/something-big-happened-today?r=pk2ue&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post.

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REW
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Mar 18Liked by Richard Partridge

Your writing is so intriguing! Twice now, I’ve needed to seek google to understand words or names you have included in your art which are unfamiliar to my inquisitive mind :) My high school English teacher would likely be impressed that now, instead of guessing, I look things up :)

To address your last question, “and does it matter?” Seems I have been saddle with this same query before in something I wrote. I guess my answer would be, it depends if it touches upon the deepest places in the human heart!

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