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Homebody, Margaret Melissa Bayard

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to the Division of Arts of Bard College

The room is lit with incandescent candelabra bulbs that glow with warmth. Refractions of light stream down the sconces, onto the cream colored walls, and around a weathered portrait that cannot be seen. Leaning against an oak side table, a man stands in front of the painting, creating an illusion of a life-like portrait. Shadows fill out the ripples in his crisp oxford shirt and the rugged folds of his face. His eyes cast a look of sweet seriousness down to me. His tilted smile leans toward his right …