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I was born on Earth during the second half of the twentieth century.

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A metaphor for the conflict between rationality and emotion; betweeen Apollo and Dionysus; between the empirical and the supernatural; between stasis and revolution...

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January 21, 2021

January 2021: Channeling Francis Bacon, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson


 This photograph, a triptych of  multiple exposure images, was initially created in-camera: a series of long exposures lit by a hand-held LED flashlight and a 500 watt tungsten spotlight. The three individual images were then combined on a single canvas in Photoshop. I feel as though this is an image made by Francis Bacon, who ditched painting and picked up a camera after reading Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray  or Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde.

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