Self-portrait on the balcony

Self-portrait on a balcony, an intimate image taken on the fly. A moment of life captured.
It is a spontaneous image that transforms into a self-portrait, first drawn with etching then given volume and light through the slow work of aquatint.
Bite after bite of ferric chloride, eight in all, the image is both realistic and reinvented. Everyone can write their own story.

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