For the month of April, I will be offering a $20 print of a photograph called MIRROR. You can buy this print through my website.
MIRROR is one of the very first Horror photographs I ever made. My friend Phil is playing the monster. I chose him because of his thin frame and articulated spine. The bathroom was a location I discovered in a condemned home. The electricity was still on in the house, but the heat was turned off. It was cold enough in that bathroom to see your breath. Phil was a real trooper.
The monster’s face is made up of two different halloween masks: one for the exaggerated brow, and one for the giant mouth. I cut the two masks apart and stapled what I needed together. The seam was hidden by the gauze I wrapped around his head. I aged the gauze, and exaggerated his eye sockets with make-up.
I replaced the bulb in the existing light fixture with a 200 watt bulb and used it as my main light source. I used two 500 watt hot lights on dimmer switches to bounce off of the ceiling as fill light.
I added all of the weird jars of brackish fluid and prescription pill bottles to the cabinet shelves. The crazy starfish on the wall, however, were already there.
