SHARING WITH ME

H.H. Cut with the Kirchen Knife So over to London for a few days with Pierrette. The tremendous winds and rain calmed down and apart from me choosing the wrong exit to join up we were on our way to a new part of town, a new gallery and a new hotel. A few Parisian friends had told me about the Whitechapel gallery. There had been an article in Beaux Art magazine for the exhibition I wanted us both to see. Hannah Höch, a Dadaist who I had discovered in Switzerland many moons ago. It was an important discovery for me. My Mother was very much in her collage period at the time. I knew nothing about Dada. I did know quite a lot about collage. Imagine my delight when I discovered that I was presenting a new artist to my mother? It was probably a one and only but it led me into the period in question and to the discovery of new or other artists. Dada? Even today when I hear the word I hear a baby pronouncing his first word. Perhaps the movement was a little more sophisticated than that! D