The first image is one of the bolder applications of B&W I’ve seen recently. Not only is it challenging to make a dark image that isn’t ultimately boring, but it’s harder yet to do it in B&W. To me this work has succeeded but I wonder if others think it’s too dark?
The bigger impact of the first image is that it strikes a chord like a distant memory of a nearly forgotten place or time. In a way not unlike that of Rorschach's ink blots, the work inspires a degree of projecting one’s emotions on the scene, and it’s provocative due to that.
Nicely done.
