“Woman contemplating Red was one of the first of six or seven pieces made over a one-year period using the same materials and basic premise. Most of the subsequent pieces utilized the underlying magazine collage in a more fractured and asymmetric way than this example and with a more specific topical cultural event (Vietnam, etc.). In Woman Contemplating Red the figure image in the film overlay tends to create an “accurate” silhouette rather than mixing with a conflicting magazine collage silhouette. (...)

This idea intrigued me because the figurative image is just another “found object” in the spirit of Dada like the magazine collage material. It is authentic and societal rather than subjective and personal, and of course it was less complicated than getting a friend and cheaper than hiring a professional model.” ROBERT F. HEINECKEN (Brooks Johnson, Photography Speaks – 150 Photographers on their Art, Apperture Foundation / Chrysler Museum of Art, New York, 2004)