Erica Arambula
Duane Michals – "The Spirit Leaves the Body"
1968 Gelatin Silver Prints
Duane Michals work has a short story to tell in each of his images created. I have decided to select this image called "the Spirit Leaves the Body" because it gives off a vibe in which not only takes me back to past tense events but as well as the present. It reminds when I would hear people say when one falls in their dream the body reacts in real life by twitching or when the spirit leaves the body and comes back there is a body reaction as well. This image reminds me of just that, the way the spirit has left the body but this time, it does not come back to its origins, in fact it leaves the body and by the end of the sequence the spirit does not return meaning there is no reaction with the body due to the spirit leaving, thus resulting in a peaceful death.
