My poem on Nicolaes Maes’ painting The Idle Servant aka Interior with a Sleeping Maid and her Mistress is at The Wombwell Rainbow for Day Six of the John Berger Ways Of Seeing challenge, alongside other excellent contributions. Berger uses this painting on p120 of his Chapter Six photo essay. My poem is called ‘The cannon in Magritte’s surreal painting fires’. Magritte’s The Threshold of Liberty is the very final painting Berger uses in his book. #WaysofSeeing50 #JohnBerger.

-Anjum Wasim Dar The cannon in Magritte’s surreal painting fires The cannon in Magritte’s surreal painting fires. An exhausted maid sleeps on the job…

#WaysofSeeing50 #JohnBerger. Day Six: Fine Arts and Commerce” Photo Essay. In celebration of fifty years since John Berger’s “Ways Of Seeing” was …