Today Kim unleashed her smartphone to document some dental work performed on my own teeth Friday, just something to send on to the kids. And here is her photo (which I converted to grayscale, as is my wont):
The nod to Munch’s legendary 1893 painting was not entirely accidental, as I had been thinking about it since when just a few days ago, photographer and friend from the distant past, Jim Friedman [1] [2] [3], had sent me on Monday this Instagram piece (attributed to one Jerry Saltz):
No more than three days later, I ran across this report, seeming to debunk some of the conventional wisdom about “The Scream”. And passed it on to Jim. If you want to read a “typical” backgrounder of the kind that we have seen over the years, before this recent revelation, try this.