I am my other, I am my self: encounters with Gauguin in Polynesia.

Abstract

[ Photographs, drawings, a whole retinue of little friends.... will converse with me each day.....I shall not think, I promise you, of death, but of eternal life, not death in life but life in death. In Europe, that death with its serpent' s tail is plausible, but in Tahiti death has to be seen with roots that spring flowering back to life ]. - Paul Gauguin.