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To Each Her Own

ARTISTIC INFLUENCE AND INSPIRATION ARE SO DIFFICULT TO pin down or measure that you can’t even really describe them as phenomena. They’re bound up with life, with experiencing the passage of time and coming to terms with ceaseless change. It’s not a matter of academic pursuit. It’s about staying open, seeing and hearing and feeling and describing more and more all the time.

A life of movie-watching gave me a wide array of possibilities for aesthetic choices on paper and, which meant vintage Cooke Prime lenses and pieces of vintage stockings over the back element of the lens. Wyatt got deep into the second step.

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