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Title page image of my book and accompanying solo exhibition, STILL/LIFE IN

MOTION - a portrait of time passing. The ghost image caught behind the head of this

beautiful woman alludes to time passing as in the Vanitas Still life painting genre of

17th century Dutch art. In those canvases the painter would paint a time piece or skull

hidden in a composition of lush flowers, crystal and gold that showed off the wealth of

the new middle classes of that period in Holland. Here in my photograph I interpreted

that idea with in camera photographic technique

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