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Premonitions of the Celtic Twilight

Premonitions of the Celtic Twilight

Another bit of spontaneous poetry that, with its characteristically soft sibilant hiss, emerged from alchemical silver in the amber-lit sanctuary of my darkroom. The sandwiched negatives are Summer of Love images: the silhouettes of Hare Krishna dancers in Tompkins Square Park and the faces of anti-Vietnam War demonstrators in Central Park. Begun in 1968, the collage underwent several iterations, not telling me it was complete until I added the moon with an editor's punch in 1974 Tri-X as usual, the other technical data lost to the fire.