NARCISSUSes IN PURGATORY, ADMIRING THEMSELVES IN MIRRORS

I feel that I have “broken through” a metaphysical barrier in my longtime obsession of photographing personages in refracted color and light and am now somehow communing with those I have learned to recognize after a decade of “seeing” them, now revealing themselves to me as this project develops. They seem to be in another dimension looking out, which one can appreciate through their portraits, their consorts, menageries and the fascinating interplay of color, light and shadow  in the magnificent designs that thaumaturgically emanate from their fusion:

GO FULL SCREEN, ENLARGE IMAGES (COMMAND + ON A MAC) AND SCROLL SLOWLY.  IMAGERY CHANGES WITH DISTANCE AND THROUGH SQUINTED EYES