'kato' exhibition catalogue_EN

photographs: Vasilis Charizanis (right, back)
Hushed up from this story however was the existence of
one Major Tom, to whom was originally assigned the task of
writing the letter to Pam. Tom never managed to write the
letter or indeed refused to write it. He regarded the story
of Martin and Pam as the love of a ‘twice-dead’ man and a
‘non-existent’ woman assigned to bear the burden of history
on their shoulders. And in any case he knew little about
love and neither, perhaps, its ways nor its violence. He did
however sense its existence. He took early retirement and
died on 5.3.1967 in a cheap boarding house in East London,
most likely following years of morphine abuse in the
form of tablets. The only thing of interest found among his
personal belongings was a diary containing a list. The list
itself suggests an attempt at naming the objects and their
sentimental ownership. We read on the first page thus:
The self-existence of a childhood painting, the tenderness of
the yard of an afternoon, the loss of aired sheets, the catharsis
of freshly-ironed whites, the unwillingness of dirty crockery, the
youth of black horses, the senescence of the abandoned shore,
the gnashing of teeth...