Photo by Marilyn Silverstone-- Blake Tebbe

I chose this photo by Marilyn Silverstone of a man playing a piano while smoking from a tobacco pipe. The main thing that catches my eye though is the face above the piano that is staring at him as if it were watching him play. The level of the face and the pianists face is just about even which lines the two faces up as if they are speaking to one another. The lines in the curtains divide the two faces and separate them but it is as if the man is playing the piano to the face as if he is trying to talk to him. I also like the pattern on the floor of the room and the different shades created from the light entering through the window.