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Limitations

"Nelson experiments with presenting his viewer with the two sides of every subject in a dense visual masterwork of stark superimpositions." (Mark Toscano) "An experiment in group portraiture in which we are simultaneously seeing opposite sides of the sitters# heads. Probably not a solution for every group portrait, but a distinctive result has been achieved here nonetheless." (Q.A. Standish)

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"Nelson experiments with presenting his viewer with the two sides of every subject in a dense visual masterwork of stark superimpositions." (Mark Toscano) "An experiment in group portraiture in which we are simultaneously seeing opposite sides of the sitters# heads. Probably not a solution for every group portrait, but a distinctive result has been achieved here nonetheless." (Q.A. Standish)

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