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19-NOV-2009

Phone call, Library, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2009

I use back lighting to silhouette a woman on her way into the Scottsdale Library, gesturing forcefully as she carries on a cell phone conversation. I place the silhouetted figure against a setting of bold geometrical forms – the woman’s silhouetted fingers extend just below a concrete wall, and are echoed by the rectangular facing rising on the wall behind it, as well as the bowl-like shade on the lighting standard at the left edge of the frame. A black triangular shadow extends behind her, echoed in turn by another triangular shadow in the upper right hand corner. These triangular shadows reinforce the abstract thrust of the woman’s silhouette and carry its effect throughout the image.

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