Dress-up Day at the Old Men's Home

David Fraiser Driesbach

In nearly all of Driesbach's printed works there is a man in a top hat and glasses integrated into the narrative, self-portraits. Driesbach is embedded in the surreal landscapes he has created on the plate, as if bearing witness to the action--surreal or otherwise--going on all around him.

In the background is a clock that indicates that time is irrelevant in this place - it no longer matters. The residents are all dressed, with ties and hats, sitting in their wheelchairs or with walkers.

Detail-oriented and never one to waste a moment of innovation, Driesbach also registered his large prints with pinholes placed not at the corners of the sheets as was traditional, but placed purposefully through the center of specific objects within the composition: the eye of a horse, the hub of a wheel, the filament of a lightbulb.