Figure1 – Faces, Halloween 2019, Salem, MA. (c) DE Wolf 2019.

We hear that people can put on multiple faces. “He is two-faced!” The theme of today’s photograph, Figure 1, is just that. cast in a macabre Salem Halloween light, I ask the simple question whether you can change your face. Perhaps this question has new or re-emphasized meaning in our current political environment, where truth and reality are continuously being challenged. Here a skeleton, whose flesh is still liquifying, takes off its grinning face to reveal an even more terrifying demeanor. All the while a watchful face in the background stares at him. This was taken through the window of a gallery on Essex Street. And just to confuse and mix message everything, we have the flowery pastel colors.These are happy colors. The subject matter tells a different story.

Canon T2i with EF70-200mm f/4 USM lens at 100 mm, ISO 400, Aperture Priority AE Mode 1/60th sec at f/8.0, pattern metering with no exposure compensation.