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Skin and Bones

This series called Skin and Bones began in 2009 in response to my mother's illness and a year later her passing,  It is an attempt to come to terms with the certainty of death that each of us will eventually face.  My intent is to translate the often painful feelings and emotions of the dying process to the photographic image.

I have long been fascinated by the human skeleton, the classic symbol of death.

The ever smiling skull, the serpentine backbone and wonderfully fragile hands and feet comprise a beautiful and complicated under pinning for our fleshly bodies.

I juxtaposed the skeleton with faces of friends and relatives or used it as a partner for the figure. The ensuing images are multilayered and hand toned unique prints.  They are psychological and allegorical manifestations of the never ending cycle of life and death.

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