‘Our faces and eyes are places of significant exchange.’ Photo: The Virgin Eleousa, c1425-1457, attributed to Angelos Akotantos
About face: Dana Smith’s Thought for the Week
‘I have a suggestion that might feel painfully unBritish.’
by Dana Smith
5th April 2024
‘Remember my face’, my mother said to me before she died, expressing a deep human longing to be seen. When a beloved dies, that face is gone and never gone. They leave a remnant of themselves in our hearts, in our eyes, and in the way we see the world.
