The Mantis is the first character from the ongoing portrait series: Bizarre.
In one way or another, one escapes the real world and creates another.
One can also escape himself and become another. This is Mimicry.
- Roger Caillois (Man, Play and Games 1958)
This piece consists of two gelatin-silver prints mounted on black mat board. The portrait is produce with a 35mm negative and toned in Sulphide and Selenium. The border is contact printed and1
Photographer
« I print very little of my images, as to warrant it, the image needs to have a heavy aura or haunted quality. »



