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+marker & white-out pen on paper, 8 x 6 inches. 2009.
can't decide which way i like it best. head-up the focus is in the eyes and you have to force the attention away from them to explore the rest of the image. it's a portrait and you can't work around it. upside-down the focus is the white cross, which opens the image and makes it easier to look at, the neck/chest area gains a different aspect and the face dissolves... upside-down is winning by a bit. Critique is enabled so tell me what you think. + Comments
 Personally, A face is still a face. Despite the cross my eyes still gravitate towards the face. The piece suddenly becomes something that "looks" wrong because my brain realizes that portraits don't hang upside down. I vote right-side up.
It's a very lovely portrait. Your marks are interesting and I think despite the viewer's tendency to get stuck on a face, the rest of the image is interesting enough to carry the eyes through it. +thank you very much for your opinion, glad you liked it
 +-- +"come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?"+ k.p.  While I'm certainly not one to give critique on an artwork such as this, I can say that I agree with the person above me in saying that the face is the main focus point of the piece, and me as a viewer tends to gravitate towards it. I also agree that the right-side up version is more appropriate for the piece because the pose seems so timeless. I certainly enjoy the etching type style you have going on here with the background halo, and on the man's face. Very elegant looking. Great work.
-- → #seniormentors ◊ #120love ←  I see the face as being the focal point in both positions of the piece. The white lines forming texture on the face are very sharp, which draw my eye directly to the face. The body, however, seems to fade into the background as the lines are much softer.
It's a lovely piece and I actually like the look of the two heads positioned next to one another. However, seeing as a choice must be made between the two, I would choose the "right side up" position. Of course, upside down another feeling is given to the piece entirely. A sense of upheaval and perhaps a bit of 'mockery', so to speak. Though that's just my take on it. Also, I am really impressed by your ability to use such simple media as a marker and white out!!  At first I thought these were prints and you had purposefully placed them next to each other.
I like the effect it creates. But as a standalone image, I'd definitely vote right side up; the upside down one doesn't have a particular reason to be upside down, if you get my meaning. I'd look at it and think, "Why'd someone hang the picture up that way?" which you probably wouldn't want someone thinking.   I love
 them side by side, cant you leave it like this ? if only in digital...? For the reasons mentioned by people before me, right one will be better as a stand alone piece :]  This must stay as a double portrait, i find it much more engaging with the two faces, especially as it appears as though you have placed it not only as an upside down version but also as a mirror image (both heads tilt the same way in this version). I also enjoy the white lines that lead down the face and chest toward the cross. Amazing work.
 I must agree with aviencrest, I immensely enjoy the piece as a double portrait. Perhaps edit out the extra two signatures (?) and place them at the corners of the diptych. You could also try making it a vertical composition with the mirror image directly above or below the other. Brilliant work as usual.
-- ABYSSVS ABYSSVM INVOCAT  It's a striking image- personally, I'd put the two right-side up, side by side, but mirrored, so they lean toward one another (like holy twins). That way the white line that more or less bisects their faces are aligned to intersect, forming a triangle (though that would happen off the page)- a classic compositional arrangement...but not so "classic" that it's stuffy.
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As with the bulk of Daniel's work, there is a striking balance and control of both contrast and overall tonality. Symbolic and topical interpretations aside, one can get very easily lost in examination of minutae; small crevices of crafted negative space and visceral movement of ink, strange subdivisions of the surface and a loose, but otherwise very deliberate sense of construction.
The content, while superficially could be construed as "gothic" it really isn't. It is more substantive, and its subtlety works that to a fine degree, which also pushes this beyond that trappings of "dark" works.
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