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Random Journal Page 71

This small collage features a quote from "Madness and Civilization" by Michel Foucault that was cut from a Sister Nagsters script. It was turned into a large 2'x3' collagraph, Day and Night

Random Journal Page 71 by Laura Chenault

The collage text reads "... day and night are arranged like a pair of mirrors, endlessly reflect each other... a single movement... all of man's life and his death... light and shadow confront each other, divide and at the same time unite a face and its reflection, a skull and its image, a vigil and a silence"

Also here's the original quote:

In classical tragedy, day and night are arranged like a pair of mirrors, endlessly reflect each other, and afford that simple couple a sudden profundity which envelops in a single movement all of man's life and his death. In the same fashion, in De la Tour's Madeleine au miroir, light and shadow confront each other, divide and at the same time unite a face and its reflection, a skull and its image, a vigil and a silence; and in the Image Saint-Alexis, the page holding the torch reveals under the shadow of the vault the man who was his master — a grave and luminous boy encounters all of human misery; a child brings death to light.