Peter Jonas, an object in art

As we mourn Peter’s death, here’s a reminder of the unsparing portraits he sat for in 2018 for a photographic exhibition by Barbara Luisi.

That was Peter, always giving his all.

This is what he wrote when Barbara showed him the pictures:

Gnarled olive trees and the ageing human body: two facets
of nature that show the glories of creation in their stark
reality of withering maturity. They are visual life histories
of nature and humanity in their inevitable but beauteous
decline.
Barbara Luisi is possessed of the talent and insight to show
the glorious but sinewy and tough reality of longevity
itself. They document the scars of experience. Free from
any cosmetic make-over and touched by the harsh beauty
of grainy naturalism, her pictures show us as we are and
nature as it is. They also show us what we might become
and how we will be seen when the final curtain falls, as it
always does!
PJ
14 th January 2019.