
Lucybelle Crater and Lucybelle Crater
A masked figure in a grotesque rubber Halloween mask stands alongside another similarly masked presence in a domestic or rural setting, creating an uncanny sense of anonymity and duality. Meatyard's use of identical masks erases individual identity, suggesting that all human relationships are filtered through constructed personas and the unknowable nature of others. The stark black-and-white gelatin silver print amplifies the eerie tension between the familiar and the deeply unsettling.
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print.
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
A Constant Pursuit: Photographs from the Collection of Ed Cohen & Victoria Shaw
October 4, 2018
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