Armagnac Glasses, El Rito, June, 2001

4 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches, printed on Bergger warmtone grade 2. Selenium toned and dry mounted on 8 x 10 Rising Museum board. Signed on mount recto, titled on verso. Printed in 2001.

Made as candlesticks, they became glasses for armagnac. They were objects of mourning after Walter Chappell’s death, accompanied by flicker feathers on the kitchen windowsill in El Rito, but they were transformed in time to symbols of love and fidelity.