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10-APR-2009

Street scene, Bisbee, Arizona, 2009

I use light and shadow here to create a series of yellow and black store window triangles to turn a street scene into a stage set. The bright yellow triangle at far left defines the profile of the woman who is departing the frame by silhouetting her. She carries a notebook in her left hand, which links her to the woman at far right, who carries papers in her left hand. The second yellow triangle is darker, and acts as a divider, separating the woman leaving the frame from a young boy. This dim triangle also holds a paper at its base, which echoes the paper in the nearby woman’s hand. The young boy is dimly seen, a small onlooker incongruously wearing a grinning skull on his chest. The image is full of questions, and leaves the answers to us.

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Phil Douglis20-Jan-2018 23:28
Thanks, Bernard. I agree. The story here rests with how each viewer interprets this image, and you are the first to tell me you have be doing just that..
Bernard Bosmans18-Jan-2018 00:14
Terrific scene, alive and well and so many stories are rising up.
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