By Ben Greenman
from forthcoming collection, as yet untitled
In a place of honor in the house hangs “Portrait of the Owners,” a large gelatin silver print of a dog, a cat, and a mouse. It is remarkable for its composition, in particular an asymmetry that pushes the three subjects to the left-hand edge of the photograph and leaves the rest of the picture plane a vast, textured, expanse. The last man to see the portrait in its current location was also its first, and he ascertained immediately that it concealed behind it a wall safe. His dead body is in the basement. The artist is not known.
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