Pre-AMD Works
To provide context, these two paintings were copied from photographs many years ago — when common vision was fully operational. They demonstrate how closely the artist could replicate images with unimpaired sight, and serve as a baseline for understanding how profoundly AMD has altered visual perception.
DA VINCI
A detail copied from Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin and Child with Saint Anne. Reproduced from a photograph with full visual acuity.
Copying da Vinci and Rembrandt taught me how to paint. I hoped to develop a portfolio that one day might help me gain acceptance at an art restoration school. Fifty years later, and now with AMD, I am not as hopeful about achieving a career in art restoration.
REMBRANDT
A portrait copied from Rembrandt's painting of Hendrickje Stoffels. Reproduced from a photograph with full visual acuity.
These pre-AMD works serve as calibration — a record of the artist's technical facility when vision was unimpaired. The contrast with the post-AMD series is the project's central data point.