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On holiday, I decided to try my hand at pencil sketching again. I have always been fascinated by faces, and how subtle differences of expression can convey quite different impressions of character and emotion. For the first go at drawing in many years, I chose a photo I had recently taken of my partner in life and in crime, which I found captured something about her unique character rather well. The process of trying (whether more or less successfully) to reproduce that 'something' with a pencil will always seem rather magical to me, and so a poem followed. One dark art nodding to another.

Read the poem here.