Doug Descending a Staircase (v1)

any comments or suggestions on this playful self portrait?

Okay... So, I like the entire series in this folder... But this one a bit less than others... I think it's a little cramped and too sharp for a scene so fully loaded - if that makes any sense....? It's almost as if you had several people here, and my eye is almost surprised - visually of course, not intellectually - to see no shadows casted by one person onto the next (and same) person...:-) Weird feeling, really ! :-))) I think this may also feel less congested if you would take out about half of the Dougs... anyway, I find there are way too many Dougs on this site already...:-) Cheers.

Happy New Year, Doug, and you too, Marc!

 

I'm glad this isn't a nude. :-) It's very well done and must have been difficult to plan the composition. All but the 4th figure have their eyes closed - planned or otherwise, it draws my attention to the 4th's hopeful expression.

I wonder if I could add shadows in photoshop? I agree, it would look better. I remember, it was really a tough image to combine, coincidentally, because of the shadows on the banister cast by the successive Dougs. Taking out a few Doug's would lessen the similarity between this, and the Duchamp original, though.

 

Chalk one up for experience.

Very few people know that the above photo inspired this famous abstract:

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/51449.html

Great work, Doug.

--Lannie

Thanks Lannie. It was a blatant ripoff!