I am using Jeffrey Smart as my guide here. I saw Jeffrey's portrait of Clive James, the man who made an art of film criticism, with the figure of Clive occupying a tiny portion of the painting. I saw a fisherman in a hi-viz windcheater standing on the edge of the peir and visible through the opening in the shelter. I felt no inclination to ask him to stand so that he was in the centre of the opening and decided that the remainder of the image should lack symmetry.
The fisherman
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The fisherman

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