Our Strange Duet
“In sleep, he sang to me, in dreams, he came
That voice which calls to me and speaks my name…”
A portrait study of Christine and Erik from the musical-inspired classic novel, Phantom of the Opera and a subtle homage to my favorite memento mori trope, Death and the Maiden. Scrawled together with my tired, old talons over several months of starting, restarting, rearranging, and finally succumbing to this inevitable iteration which I’ve concluded will never be complete. Once upon a never, there was meant to be a large chandelier and candelabras glowing in the background. Ah, well…
