Background is from a children's book on printmaking from common materials. The photographic profile is a found photo (it was already cut out)! The booze bottles and clock are from various vintage magazines. The scary mask is from a 1961 LIFE magazine article "ODD IMAGES TO TEST MINDS" about techniques used on patients at the "new" Houston State Psychiatric Institute.
I now quote Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849):
"We stand upon the brink of a precipice. We peer into the abyss — we
grow sick and dizzy. Our first impulse is to shrink from the danger.
Unaccountably we remain. By slow degrees our sickness, and dizziness,
and horror, become merged in a cloud of unnameable feeling."
From: The Imp of the Perverse
Well, Dora looks pretty happy with her demons, maybe she's not quite ready for rehab!
ReplyDeleteFreud's Dora? =smile= I like this a lot as a dramatization of the concept. The Poe quotation is perfect: I love that weird little essay of his.
ReplyDeleteIt´s 20 past eight - thanks God it´s not 5 for twelve - this is the reason why Dora is hopeful that she will manage it al least!
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