The figure here is Janet Mercer (Coleman), caught in mid cigarette by the photographer's flash in near non-extistent lighting on the porch of my parents' summer cottage on Georgian Bay, Ontario.  The digitized image transferred from the original slide (It is from 1981) is very low resolution.  Then the subsequent enlargement produced grain and loss of image.  It was bad.  But I loved this pose so much I felt I had to do it anyway.  There is something almost straight jacket like about the hand behind the back.  The cropped legs produce a cut out that reminds me of a Queen or some other face card. I also think of the image of the genie rising in smoke from a lamp.   Yes, the actual quality of the rendering of features is a blorpy mess.  But I so like the amazing series of visual resonances that it hardly mattered to me. The oversize loops of the bow at the neck are echoed in the huge eyeglasses; the severe neck line has somethings in common with the severity of the hair style; the vertical plunge of the hair is again picked up in the dangling drop of the tie. 

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