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Every evening after a hard day teaching art to the children of the Waterside School of Art. Mr Jenkins
would always visit the Tate museum on his way home to see and study just one artwork. “Instinct”
by the artist McKee.
To Jenkins all the other paintings in the museum did not exist; to his eye all the other paintings had
been scribbled out. Jenkins would stand for an hour every day gazing at the painting asking himself
“How can I explain to my pupils the pleasure I receive from this artwork?”
McKee uses the blindfolded man as his subject to capture “Instinct”.
It is instinct that causes the blindfolded man to pause mid step.
Jenkins is a bachelor and lives alone, so every night after looking at the painting he would go
upstairs to the self service restaurant for his evening meal. All through the meal Jenkins had been
thinking of the painting and what he could pass on to his students, when suddenly there was a loud
crash of breaking plates from the kitchen.
The sudden noise caused Jenkins to look up and around the circular restaurant.
A few tables to his right sat a large, unhealthy looking man
who seemed to be studying Jenkins in quite some detail.
On reflection Jenkins had seen this man on several occasions before,
and thought he must be a bachelor like himself, just there for an evening meal.
