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"Polina Safovich (Critic) Reading through all the posts, Aaron's choice of print from the Howard-Greenberg Gallery and his interpretation captured my interest the most. The image depicts a large studio, which to me looks like a stage with big curtains on the side, as if a performance is currently happening. There also seems to be an arched doorway or pathway towards the center of the stage. Towards the right there is a cut-out figure of a human, which I interpret as a woman because of the long dress or cloak she is wearing. She may be an actor on stage performing. The fact that she is cut-out or not part of the actual print can indicate a sign of invisibility, or absence of something, as if she was a ghost trying to reconnect with her past with the stage or her acting career. The print is called "The Large Studio", so this adds to the theme of loneliness and depression possibly. The negative calotype would produce copies that also lack the actual figure since that space is empty emotionally and physically."
--( posted on Sep 25, 2016, commenting on the post “The Large Studio” by Dan Estabrook – Aaron Empedrado )