PORTRAITS are to daily faces
~Emily Dickinson
As an evening west
To a fine, pedantic sunshine
In a satin vest.
Short and to the point, this one. Portraits–the ways in which we memorialize faces that are otherwise ordinary to us–cast a certain glow over their subjects. They romanticize them. The idealized ways in which we choose to immortalize one another, whether in paint or Snapchat filters, are not the stark realities of broad daylight.
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