Analyzing the contents of a portrait painted of him in his Paris apartment in 1979 by recently deceased artist Elizabeth Dax.
The Idiot’s reaction to this portrait is usually “Mirror, mirror on the wall…what the hell happened?” But today he remembered the recently deceased artist Elizabeth Dax while looking at some of the objects and details she included in her portrait. The Idiot still has the David Hockney painting, the wood table purchased at an auction in Cape Town for $15, the 18th century map of France…(Portrait by Elizabeth Dax)
About Joel
Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."
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