Gorgon, and Medusa, Priestess of Athena (July 2026)

 

September 2025 : work in process

This image originated as an in-camera double-exposure, that I immediately cropped, duplicated, horizontally rotated, and then paired flush to the original.

Ten-Exposure In-Camera Multiple-Exposure Self-Portrait, July 5, 2025

 

Untitled Multiple Exposure, Multiple Self Portrait, 2025

 

August 2019 still-life of flowers morphs into a Baroque design

The original source material being photographed here was a vase of flowers sitting on a dining room table. Long after midnight I decided to make a couple of detail photographs of them. A few days later I "sandwiched" two of them together, making a new image. This image was duplicated four times, and flipped/rotated/reversed and then joined together, making the final image you see here. This image is very fun to look at, very entertaining, very hypnotic.  The central machine-like flower generator in the exact center is matched in weirdness only by the laughing face of the Dionysus-like creature at very top center. Finally, the viewer notices the pale "image" of a child's face emerging out of the center lower pattern as well. This child stares directly out of the frame, meeting the viewer's gaze. This photograph breaks expectations repeatedly, while still utilizing the tried-and-true compositional norms of the very late Renaissance.

February 10, 2019

Identical Twins (Fullerton Avenue Elevated Platform, Chicago), October 2017

I made the source photograph for this image while riding the Chicago Transit Authority's red line commuter train. As we rolled into the platform at Fullerton Avenue, I quickly made a few photographs, through the window, of the people waiting outside for the train doors to open.

The original image was simple to create, using a typical DSLR ("dx" format) and a 50mm lens. This 'source' image was duplicated four times, and then digitally manipulated in Photoshop, resulting in this final image.

Despite the mundane nature of the everyday moment which was initially recorded, this image illustrates the hazards of depending upon photography as a medium conveying empirical truth.

My original photograph of a De Paul University student waiting for a subway train has morphed into an image of a pair of identical twins who serve as gatekeepers of a private garden. The viewer can examine their features and sense that the twins have contrasting personalities.

jimmydumps/sunnyjimmy: Mysterious Gothic Twins

jimmydumps/sunnyjimmy: Mysterious Gothic Twins: I don't know why, when I saw this mysterious, gothic-like twinning of the lead singer of whitewolfsonicprincess... I thought of this fr...

Unfinished Mock-Up for Double-Portrait, January 2012.

Usher in his Library