This is a Test, 2015, Archival Digital Print

It’s informative to look at images reversed and together. This was a photography practice of yore, often done with faces. The portrait was printed with the negative in both positions, then cut in half and repositioned and sometimes rephotographed. The results were always surprising because they revealed how the human face is not in the least symmetrical. This supported the metaphor of the divided self. Here using the tree outside my window, shot without filters and simply converted to Black and White in the computer, you can pick up all sorts of patterns not seen in the single version.  Life around us is much more surprising than we realize at first glance.