"A Shadow of My Former Self"  is a continuation of an ongoing and extremely personal series of self-portraits or "self-studies" that I have been shooting for over 10 years but have never shown to anyone until now. After a life time of devastating family tragedies, I created these most recent self studies in an effort to see what elements of myself remain and what elements yet unknown to me are reflected within the shadows as the light of evening sun collides with my flesh at the approach of a dark night that always and inevitably comes. I have found in doing these self studies in the seclusion of my studio that the shadows reveal more than the flesh.
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