Recall
The stacked panels and blue surround make the image feel like a memory system or shrine to something buried below the surface. It reads as grief organized into architecture, with the upper image hovering like a fossil, dream, or missing body.
Song Pair
Stina Nordenstam - Soon After Christmas
Visual Text
indecipherable letters [burgundy, beige, middle, lower rectangle] [needs review]
Source
source filename: goodbyecaveman.heic
site image: art-023-goodbye-caveman.jpg
Tags
Visible
Colors
orange / brownblue
Part of
Connectedness #105 of 128
Manual Priority Evidence
- girl (!)
- longing (!)
- grief (!!)
- stacked panels (!!)
- blue (!)
- vertical stacking (!)
- melancholic (!)
- buried (!)
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Song Pairing: Stina Nordenstam - Soon After Christmas
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Works Cited
- Two paintings, dual reference needs URL photograph by Paschal, Jan 12, 2022 — at an ex-girlfriend's house
Direct photo reference: the two paintings as they hung together.

from the studio Two paintings, dual reference — photograph by Paschal, Jan 12, 2022 — at an ex-girlfriend's house - As I Lay Dying verified William Faulkner