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devidsketchbook: BLACK AND WHITE PORTRAITS BY CHARLES BIERK Toronto-based painter Charles Bierk (facebook / twitter) whose black and white portraits verge on photo-realism while they explore the process of their own making. Charles begins with a photograph of a face which then becomes source material for a monolithic, monochromatic portrait. Working on a large scale and using a specific square-by-square method, Charles’ new work is as much about the subject of faces as it is the practice of painting.
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devidsketchbook: BLACK AND WHITE PORTRAITS BY CHARLES BIERK Toronto-based painter Charles Bierk (facebook / twitter) whose black and white portraits verge on photo-realism while they explore the process of their own making. Charles begins with a photograph of a face which then becomes source material for a monolithic, monochromatic portrait. Working on a large scale and using a specific square-by-square method, Charles’ new work is as much about the subject of faces as it is the practice of painting.
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devidsketchbook: BLACK AND WHITE PORTRAITS BY CHARLES BIERK Toronto-based painter Charles Bierk (facebook / twitter) whose black and white portraits verge on photo-realism while they explore the process of their own making. Charles begins with a photograph of a face which then becomes source material for a monolithic, monochromatic portrait. Working on a large scale and using a specific square-by-square method, Charles’ new work is as much about the subject of faces as it is the practice of painting.
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devidsketchbook: BLACK AND WHITE PORTRAITS BY CHARLES BIERK Toronto-based painter Charles Bierk (facebook / twitter) whose black and white portraits verge on photo-realism while they explore the process of their own making. Charles begins with a photograph of a face which then becomes source material for a monolithic, monochromatic portrait. Working on a large scale and using a specific square-by-square method, Charles’ new work is as much about the subject of faces as it is the practice of painting.
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devidsketchbook: BLACK AND WHITE PORTRAITS BY CHARLES BIERK Toronto-based painter Charles Bierk (facebook / twitter) whose black and white portraits verge on photo-realism while they explore the process of their own making. Charles begins with a photograph of a face which then becomes source material for a monolithic, monochromatic portrait. Working on a large scale and using a specific square-by-square method, Charles’ new work is as much about the subject of faces as it is the practice of painting.
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devidsketchbook: BLACK AND WHITE PORTRAITS BY CHARLES BIERK Toronto-based painter Charles Bierk (facebook / twitter) whose black and white portraits verge on photo-realism while they explore the process of their own making. Charles begins with a photograph of a face which then becomes source material for a monolithic, monochromatic portrait. Working on a large scale and using a specific square-by-square method, Charles’ new work is as much about the subject of faces as it is the practice of painting.
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devidsketchbook: BLACK AND WHITE PORTRAITS BY CHARLES BIERK Toronto-based painter Charles Bierk (facebook / twitter) whose black and white portraits verge on photo-realism while they explore the process of their own making. Charles begins with a photograph of a face which then becomes source material for a monolithic, monochromatic portrait. Working on a large scale and using a specific square-by-square method, Charles’ new work is as much about the subject of faces as it is the practice of painting.
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BLACK AND WHITE PORTRAITS BY CHARLES BIERK

Toronto-based painter Charles Bierk (facebook / twitter) whose black and white portraits verge on photo-realism while they explore the process of their own making. Charles begins with a photograph of a face which then becomes source material for a monolithic, monochromatic portrait. Working on a large scale and using a specific square-by-square method, Charles’ new work is as much about the subject of faces as it is the practice of painting.

It pains me, but I’m sure she’s still yours

WHEN we two parted 
In silence and tears, 
Half broken-hearted 
To sever for years, 
Pale grew thy cheek and cold, 
Colder thy kiss; 
Truly that hour foretold 
Sorrow to this. 

The dew of the morning 
Sunk chill on my brow— 
It felt like the warning 
Of what I feel now. 
Thy vows are all broken, 
And light is thy fame: 
I hear thy name spoken, 
And share in its shame. 

They name thee before me, 
A knell to mine ear; 
A shudder comes o’er me— 
Why wert thou so dear? 
They know not I knew thee, 
Who knew thee too well: 
Long, long shall I rue thee, 
Too deeply to tell. 

In secret we met— 
In silence I grieve, 
That thy heart could forget, 
Thy spirit deceive. 
If I should meet thee 
After long years, 
How should I greet thee? 
With silence and tears.

When we Two parted by George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron

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