Self-portraits past

"A pale self-portrait looked out of the mirror with the serious eyes of all self-portraits." -- Vladimir Nabokov

[pen, col-erase pencil on paper, PS filters]

Cut Lass

She sings of a sword so white,
so luminous, that its own light
alone must slay;
she sings of a sword, a sword, a sword,
and I creep away.
-- Hilda Doolittle

[pen on paper, PS filter]

Groaner

"Home again, I can groan, scratch, and talk to myself." -- Mason Cooley

[pen on wrinkled paper, PS filter]

The Lamp

"And while the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return." -- Isaac Watts

[photo collage, PS filters]