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Comment by Avril Kirby on September 21, 2013 at 5:25pm

Lost the original original. This is a redone negative negative...hmmm

Comment by Avril Kirby on September 17, 2013 at 9:01am

And, Peter, what this made me feel was that particular openness to the world when you've closed off sight and are listening with your other senses.

Comment by Avril Kirby on September 16, 2013 at 10:36am

Thanks all. Off in oregon and grateful to find so many responses and opinions. This is a boy, actually, and a small piece of a large photo. When I get home I will post the original.

Comment by timothy gibbon on September 15, 2013 at 5:44pm

it is about listening, receptivity, calm, tabula rasa, the ready formlessness of youth, the lack of preconception. for me this is the purest form of love.

Comment by timothy gibbon on September 15, 2013 at 10:56am

oh yes, I like it too.

Comment by timothy gibbon on September 15, 2013 at 10:56am

I composed a long comment about how I prefer the original to Doug's crop.  I like Doug's crop for reasons of symmetry measure, but the original, with that lighted fall of hair which Jen pointed out, has such a pleasing down pull to counter and anchor the upward outward gaze. Possibly my reasons are hogwash, but still I want to say that the eye often knows way more than the reason; over some of my many years I have learned to be suspicious of my own pp cropping, although who knows what that clever Avril may have already done in pp.

Comment by Curt Firestone on September 15, 2013 at 7:24am

A Black and White painting