55: 'Dali'ng along

“Memory persisted in a landscape so bleak, where time dissolved… and hung out to dry,” she said mesmerised by this celebrated oil on canvas. It was her first time at both, the Museum of Modern Art and New York. How could I have broken it to her, that the man just had too much cheese?*


(*For those not in the know… 'The Persistence of Memory' is Salvador Dali’s best known work. The famous melting-clock imagery that has been reproduced almost everywhere was created by Dali after a vision he had following a snack of Camembert cheese — the clocks, therefore, have the texture of the soft cheese)