March 16 2007

OpenShut.final.jpg

Portrait and explanation by Chinese artist Zhu Yunwei.

Each portrait consists of two portrait shots. I took two pictures of each person – one with opened eyes, the other with closed eyes. I then integrated the two pictures into one portrait, resulting in the calm but unnatural expressions seen here. Human beings wake up and open their eyes in the morning, close their eyes and fall asleep at night, these are which the two normal states of everyone.

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