Fe Fi Four Freuds


 

In the ongoing project of retakes on photographs of famous writers, Sigmund Freud is arresting on a number of levels, though the scratchboard sketch, with its lurid revelations of undercolours is perhaps, the most Freudian. On the subject  I will pointedly ignore the cigarillo. I admit I did the pink and the pencil sketches simply to  make up the numbers to match the title, though they do give a wink towards the multilpicities of  ego, id and superego. The fifth, for those that count these things,  is not really a fifth but the amalgam of the blue, pencil and pink states, the latter two much in need of fleshing out,  the scratchboard version, with dark and leery psychedelia and hint at existential despair. is far too domineering to be over or underlaid in a collage. 


 


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