Peony Dress, Hand, San Francisco, 1996

4 x 5 contact print on Bergger neutral tone multigrade paper.
Selenium toned and mounted on 8 x 10 Rising Museum board. Signed on mount recto, titled on verso. Printed 2007.

9 1/8 7 1/4 inches, enlargement from the 4 x 5 negative on Oriental Seagull grade 2 paper. Selenium toned and dry mounted on Rising Museum board. Signed on mount recto, titled on verso. Printed in 2008. This print is also available framed.

A periwinkle blue silk gown with a tree peony pattern in its weave, the friend who gave it to me believed that it was a Liberty day dress. A button was missing which I replaced with my grandmother’s cameo.