It was old films that awoke me to shadow and light and its artful uses, ..it was paintings by Lepage, Goya, Rosetti, Klimt and Vermeer that gave me a sense of composition and an education in light and the idea that one image, a portrait no less, must represent something besides the subject matter. That an emotion rich with meaning was waiting somewhere in the dance between light and shadow and texture and facial expression and form...

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