We Feel FineI really like this one. This is perfect. This would be perfect if the line were just barely under her chin. Or across her forehead, as if it were a thought. Duh! Put the lines here on the lower eyelid. I guess this works, but I would have put the text just a little higher -- barely *not* touching his image. This is perfect! I *love* this photo, but her face has graffiti across it. Visually the straight line looks interesting against her tilted head, mid-photo, BUT.... If trying to use the text as a metaphor for the grandeur of the universe swallowing her, it doesn't work IMnsHO. "Hang" the line from the upper window frame in the background, "resting" on the easel. It'll run across the top of her head, but that won't ruin her face. I get the idea of using straight lines of text for all photos on the two pages, but put it across your hands and the camera, for Pete's sake! :( But at least your expression still comes through. Is the text-placement idea that the cancer and/or chemo is trying to silence you, but you won't let it? I can get that, but I don't like intentionally blocking a subject's face. If this were a shaped-text page, the text could crowd the edge of your face in the neg. space. I'm at a loss on this one; it's probably better this way, rather than giving her a text mustache. 8{D I like these. text should be lower down If the texts lines must bisect her vertical line, they should be a little higher -- off her forehead. If it were only a single line of text, running under her eye and above her nostrils, it would be *much* better. I completely object to the line through the eye, but I would object to covering her mouth even more (if that's possible, since I used the word 'completely' just now). 
One of the self portraits that I took while I was on chemo will be published in a book called 'We Feel Fine". The book comes out in December.
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phlewght
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Hmm, a puzzling artistic decision on some of these to print over people's faces/heads, including yours; I disagree completely.
Why not use background, negative space, or print lower down on the body? Shape the text in neg. space or background. Okay, I get the idea of straight lines of text for all photos, but....
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