This is probably the most unusual lamp I've ever seen and, rather surprisingly, it was in the Detroit Institute of Arts Museum Shop. I guess the duality I created with it is pretty unusual too! On Saturday I had matched it with a photo of the sun shining through tree branches. I posted that image with two other new dualities just before midnight on Saturday night. They stayed up for twenty minutes. I had second thoughts about all three and removed them. That's when I posted my Holiday Greetings photo.

This Duality series depends so strongly on my intuition that the middle of the night is becoming my most creative time of day. Waking and sleeping, images float through my mind with no agenda attached to them, just the free interweaving of ideas. Often these ideas will then appear in dreams. I'm sure Carl Jung would have loved to analyze me as I work on this series! Regarding the evolution of this particular image (Duality #19), in the night macaroni and cheese came to my mind as a possible match. Good thing I had some in the fridge that I could photograph. By the way, I seriously doubt if that idea would have occurred to me in the day!

Sunday was a good day for dualities--I completed four new ones. Added to that is one that I'd started on Saturday (Duality #16) but still needed to take a photograph of a church steeple in order to complete. I took the photo and finished that duality on Sunday, meaning there are now 5 new images on my Dualities gallery ( CLICK HERE to see them). That brings my Dualities gallery up to 20 images. Considering I started with 4 just one week ago, I'd say I've been on a roll. It's a good thing we don't do the Christmas thing or I really would have been behind the 8-ball (as my Southern mom used to say). Except for my usual lap swims, workouts at the gym, and volunteer day at school, creating dualities has been about all I've done this week. And I couldn't be happier!

By the way, I want to encourage other PBasers to try this diptych thing if you feel at all inclined. It's lots of fun! Don't worry about people saying you're "copying" Patricia or Sebas or Colin. Diptychs and triptychs are an ancient art form, one that is approached differently by each artist who uses it. A good example is Offer Goldfarb's Tryptych and Dyptych gallery ( (CLICK HERE to see it). Talk about creative!!! So give it a try yourself. And if you do, please send me a link. I'd love to see what you come up with. That's the joy of being part of a photo sharing web community like PBase--we learn from one another.