The Dark Room , a mental space. Anyone can enter this world because these are photographs, not erotica. The dark room is a place to play with identity; a closed space where the only limit is imagination. Viewers and personae are involved in multiple games with children’s toys, adult toys, sticks and feathers and dressing up. Light and energy bounce off the narrow walls. Certain images also play with other artists. When Courbet painted ‘The Origin of the World,’ who was with him? What would her gaze have been like? One of Duchamp’s successors descends a staircase fully clothed, his eyes inevitable drawn by the open door at the bottom. A violinist tunes his instrument, after Balthus’s ‘Guitar Lesson.’ The work is also an homage to an art form that is going to disappear: the 4×5” camera clutched in the hand of the dying photographer. (But if the wooden stake fails to pierce his heart there is a chance that he will continue to rise and haunt dark corners…) The women expose their bodies. Fully clothed, the male persona exposes his heart. His magnified eye peers out of the frame. We should all view the world as he does. Sharon Black, writer
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