Having watched rather a lot of Francis Bacon videos recently I've been pondering attempting a triptych this weekend. I wanted to revisit a set up I had tried a few years ago with the camera centred upon the kitchen from just inside the adjoining room. Previously the two side images were the open white door on the left and a closed white cupboard on the right, relatively flat planes, with the middle having depth... but back then I decided everything would be out of focus, for reasons I forget.
The downside of this plan was waking up, being unwell, and finding myself 93% unprepared to tidy up the kitchen in readiness to make it so there would be some semblence of a balanced messiness of life but not any actual distractingness of objects that might snag the eye. This would have required re-arranging shelves, clearing work surfaces, and possibly even washing up etc.
Then I noticed a fortunate alternative with no tidy up required, and the messiness of duvets at the end of my bed were postively Baconesque to my over-saturated subconscious. The morning sun through the window even provided sufficient light to capture from the extremely faint image on the groundglass of a vintage Mamiya TLR camera.
Subsequently, and following careful use of a calculator, I have established that this triptych may not be fully compliant. I can only put it down to an inevitable consequence of laziness.
