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Charles' first painting, After
the Fall, expresses his new relationship to the
world subsequent to a stroke paralyzing his right side.
A poet who now has aphasia, Charles depicts himself
divisibly standing with colorful abstraction
representing his functional reality. The balance of the
figure is painted flatly as is the deep space on the
right side. Reinforcing this division is the dove with a
clipped wing, the snake with a cutout section, half a
black panther seen behind a tree, and space depicted as
present and past. The reference to the past asserts
memory as a condition of cognition and an aspect of
assimilating the present.
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