The picture of Reed grasping his cane, was the last of three I tried, this one had a certain angle to his pose and look on his face- strong, determined - like he was enduring a luminous rain that poured down.His arms form a pyramid like shape, reminding me again of strength. It really shows his character I think.
Kuni was helping our group out, volunteering his time with us for awhile.The thin streak behind him seems like a flare in the night sky.
In the self portrait, I used for the background 2 taped together color transparencies of some of my old artwork.This sandwiched image is projected using a slide projecto, two seperate exposures are made. I made a drawing of my idea to clarify the arrangemets before we attempted it. First Mark Andres lit me as I posed, then a cardboard mask was used to block out where I had sat while we exposed the remainder of the image. Here, I portray my feeling about not being able to see a complex scene enacted behind me, my own charcoal drawing showing an ancient Roman fresco. One person gazes at his own reflection in a bowl held up by the central man, an act of divination, or contemplation, which requires eyesight. One interpetation of this enigmatic ancient masterpiece points out that the individual staring into the bowl sees not his own reflection, but instead the frightning mask held higher up by the other figure. Perception and internal reality , seeing and not - are unified and held together by the rectangle's frame.