Abracadabra @ EDGE Gallery (Deborah Henson + Garrison Roots)
Who are these people? Look at how they’ve aged!
These photos are mostly the same: the same two (similar-looking) people posed in identical pairs, under identical lighting, wearing the same shirts. Every prop and costume is white or clear. So much careful reconstruction and restraint exercised over so much time — 14 years! — that the differences become charged. The aging, but also the choices. In one, they’re shiny (sweaty?). In another they’re laughing. In others they’re in hockey masks or hair nets. In the last, they’re caked in white. Why?