Portrait no. 29 (Double exposure: full face and profile)

To crack a smile is an admission of guilt

to that very serious crime of being alive

captured and preserved, collision spills into coalescence

a single pair of double negatives left exposed

dissolves the distance between our best sides;

the most honest aesthetic one can affect

a picture-perfect profile to repeat on command

until all that’s left is to confess:

I am not a singular instrument

In response to Victor Obsatz' 'Portrait. No.29 (Double Exposure: Full Face and Profile)' 1953.