Isolation Multiple-Exposure Self Portraits

From the Artist: At the start of the pandemic, I began to take daily walks around my neighborhood at the end of the work-from-home day. I carried my digital SLR camera and a lens or two. I turned the camera towards new subjects and then I remembered a technique that I use occasionally in my architectural photography: in-camera multiple exposures. I recorded an image of my surroundings and turned the camera back on myself - two images combined into one frame. Tree branches and empty streetscapes framed, dissolved, and disappeared my face.

One image shows tree limbs appearing as fissures across my skin. In another image, the branches of tree, arteries of life and information, bursting forth from my body to where my head would be - my face covered by a light blue mask that blended in with the sky. The last photograph was taken at the commuter train station. Shadows cast across the steps appear as primitive digital 8-bit humanoid figures - ghostly representatives of the mass of persons no longer coming home from their offices, but now working at home.