◇ After
Ophelia · John Everett Millais, 1852
A young woman floats supine in a horizontal panel, head tipped back, mouth just parted, both palms turned up at the waterline. The reeds, willow and blossom are drawn to botanical standard and packed to every edge.
“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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