The Knight, Death and the Devil
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At Chouinard Art Institute 1964-68 I made a
photo collage inspired by Albrecht Durer's engraving called
The Knight, Death and the Devil.
This is a self-portrait and portrait of the world as I perceived
it at the time. I'm the Knight, a still fresh and naive kid (on the left),
and since I was preoccupied with horror movies and such at the time, I had
a heightened awareness of danger from Death and the Devil all
around me so pictured it both as horror, temptation and a
fixed system over which I was powerless but could only maintain a sort of
rigid virtuousness which was more of a torment than a comfort.
- Dave Thomson Dave is an animation cinematographer, technical director, Mark Twain collector, and researcher. He has donated more than eighty steamboat photos to the online Steamboat museum. Click here to see the Dave Thomson collection. 
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