◇ After
Jimi Hendrix, close-up portrait photograph (specific frame unidentified) · unidentified photographer
The head fills the sheet, tilted slightly, looking straight down the lens with the mouth just open. A red neckerchief knotted at the throat, a dark patterned jacket, the collar pale yellow.
“After” is the old gallery word for a work made in open conversation with another. It is a lineage, not a shortcut.
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