/authors/rowantree/Recent content in Rowantree on Gromet's Plaza ArchiveHugoen-usTue, 14 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2006/02/14/beach-combing/Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2006/02/14/beach-combing/<p>Beach Combing by Rowantree F/m; bond; latex; nc; X</p> <p>Sunlight, of that particularly colour leaching quality, streamed through the large picture windows that formed one long wall of a studio of some description. The room was large, sparsely furnished and decorated in those minimalist colours so favoured by interior designers that take their inspiration from the seaside. Some of the windows were open, allowing the penetrating fingers of a fresh sea breeze to circulate the room, cool enough to raise goose bumps on naked skin and contrasting with the bright sunlight of this warm spring morning. The open windows also allowed the sound of the sea to be heard: birds, surf and the sound of the breeze sighing through long grasses on the top of the dunes, all hinting at a wild freedom currently denied to the young man who now lay patiently, if anxiously on a table.</p>