Craig S. 9 November 2019

                          (Craig S. 1982)

                
                         (Unknown 1983)

Posed portfolio
Shot, head tilted right
Toward knuckles,
Eyes stared out,
     -Blue crew neck- model's
     -Own- forelock twisted,
     -Aide-memoire
     -Tacked to wall;
Photographer, crouched
Behind tripod's lens,
Luminaire
Bracketing,
     -Chin curved out free hand,
     -Hair, sweater, blocked in
     -Black and blue,
     -Eyes studied;
Foreground flash flooded,
Background gaze shouldered,
Pervasive
Crowding out,
     -Eyes, nose, mouth congealed
     -Self-revelation's
     -Simmering
     -Embryo;
Resolute brio
Steadied emulsion's
Revenant
Properties,
     -Caran d'Ache marshes,
     -Jetties, coastline formed
     -Contours in
     -Picture plane;
Perceptions pinned to
Darkroom clothesline a
Voyeur tinged
Placebo,
     -Fingers' grasp allowed
     -Shift, silver record,
     -To powder
     -Concordance;
Posed portfolio
Shot, head straightened, left
Hand grazed chin,
Eyes stared out,
     -Blue crew neck- model's
     -Own- modulated
     -Ground, forelock,
     -Twisted, brown;
Photographer stood
Back, tripod, easel
Framed close-up
Elements,
     -Broad development:
     -Head; chin; neck; collar;
     -Hand; blocked out
     -Feasible;
Flash assaulted eyes,
Stacked canvasses brushed
Back of head,
Wires looped,
     -Desultory blues
     -Coated, incisive
     -Browns, trained through
     -Reds, marooned;
Periorbitals
Funneled ruminant
Basin strained
Of surname,
     -Faint luminesence
     -Dabbed face, birthmark daubed
     -Eye, wiped clean
     -Along throat
Testimony hedged
Insular resolve,
Wariness
Transparent,
     -Binary eyes hived
     -Representation
     -Empathic,
     -Imprisoned;
Third year, fourth portrait,
Watched dissolve before
Propped canvas,
Palette, brush,
     -Revolving lathe whirred,
     -Conspicuous slab
     -Weathered by
     -Oils applied;
Blathered in background,
Butt kept the seat warm,
Pigments danced
Poi ballet,
     -Partitioned plie,
     -Back straightened, elbow
     -Bent, wrist turns
     -Resilient;
Feather calamus
Suspended barbule
Ferrules, soaked
Droplets spread,
     -Thalamus marbles
     -Registered streaks, rolled
     -Rarified
     -Outpourings;
Likeness imperilled
Life's assuredness,
Prowled canvas
For mirrored,
     -Established shadow,
     -Light; artificial
     -Impastoed,
     -Natural;
Disremembered shot,
Musings melded shock
At sublime
Surveillance,
     -Curatorial
     -Against contrivance,
     -Cause, effect,
     -Recorded.

9 November 2019


(This 'duet' is based on a drawing (1982), and a painting (1984), of the top sitter, and two paintings (both 1983) of the bottom sitter.)