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When it feels like curtains...

Behind the scenes

6 May 2012. Posted by Ken Hall

Well, yes, sometimes it can. In which case, you need to find ways - maybe even work harder than you've ever had to do before - of staying hopeful.

The curtains can be real. Over to you now, Jude, Carlo, Tom, John and Gustave. Take it away.

Jude Rae, Clérambault's Dream, 1994, oil on canvas

Carlo Maratta, Figure with drapery, undated, chalk drawing

Tom Kreisler, The window curtains as hanging coats, 1989, acrylic on canvas

John Nash, Window, 1929, wood engraving

Gustav Taubert, Das Innere des Konigl. Hoftheater zu Dresden, undated, lithograph

What's with those curtains? This - right now - might feel like your darkened moment but you should think about turning it into something else again. It's one from you now, Terry. You gotta stay hopeful - things could go well - even very well. Why don't you make it your time to shine? Make it your curtain call.

Terry Stringer, Curtain Call, 1981, bronze