August 01, 2007 5:48pm I keep returning to this image because there's something haunting and a bit sinister about it, for me. The paleness of your skin, the somber color palette, the freshly-combed, perfect appearance of your hair, the smoothness of the shaving cream, the closed lips, the poised razor and the steely, focused and intense look of concentration in your eyes (effectively doubled by the beveled mirror)... all these elements combine to create a powerful feeling of ceremony. Ritual. Purification. A serial killer preparing to strike. A very powerful and chilling image, quite different from anything else I've seen of your work.
