I am presenting a selection of photographs from a new series, “Office of the Revels,” 2015, which were developed in connection with my interest in visual “cues” that move a narrative forward on stage, whether in the theatre or on film. Titles for the works are drawn from a description of Queen Elizabeth’s “progresses” in the late 1500s when she traveled around England, as a guest of each town and village where she stopped, and was entertained for example with figures, or “sea persons,” parading waist-deep through a reflecting pool, in full costume.
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