When I showed this piece to friends, I was stunned by the way they saw all kinds of things in it, and how offended they were that no one else saw what they did. I heard about “doves,” “swans,” “definitely the moon,” “obviously the sun,”, “2 women falling.” My favorite came from a man who saw me holding this up in front of him and blurted out, “Oh, it’s two slugs under an August moon.” Obviously, this has to be its subtitle. Do you see the faces of the women whispering to each other?

Copyright (c) 2001 by Claire Favro.  All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission from Claire Favro.

Photo by David Leviton.