Rare Forms of Reality - Double Exposures
Group IV

"No Trespass at the Dream Home"

During the nineties I spent much time around the Laguna Pueblo area of New Mexico. This is such an unusual place and one can wander in the deep cracks of the earth for whole afternoons. While driving down some old road there was a tree that was so huge and majestic that we had to stop. Nearby was a lonely old house that looked like it had been closed up for years. My friend and I walked around the house wondering why it was so lonely. In just a few moments a reservation police car drove up and out came a very polite officer who wanted to know what we were up to. He explained that it was not appropriate to linger or take photographs of such a house. He went on to explain that in a Navajo tradition, after a certain person dies, their house may be closed up with boards so rthat no one else can enter afterwards. This photograph is of that house. This was the only photo I was able to take before we were quickly ushered away. It is strange how the photograph found its way to my shooting of double exposures. I don't recall where the second exposure came from, nor did I direct the "perfectness" of the layered subjects. They seem to have gone together so well. This is one of my more uncanny and favorite double exposure shots with a story... Hence the name "No Trespass at the Dream Home."


"Asleep at the Wheel"


"Harlequin Nature"


"Painted Skin, Golden Dream"


"Painted Skin Veils 1"


Copyright 1999 Nikulaus Paul @ MuseMart, collection Peter Robinson

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