Estádio de Beisebol — Jogo Noturno, 1995

A scanned photograph placed on a vintage floral wallpaper with muted pastel flowers, the photo filling nearly the entire frame with only a thin natural border visible on all sides. The photograph depicts: Grungy analog flash photo, Kodak FunSaver disposable, circa 1995. Two friends — a young person with short dark hair and warm brown skin looking at the camera with a hot dog in one hand with mustard dripping onto their oversized satin starter jacket, and a heavyset white guy with a backwards snapback and a patchy goatee wearing a pinstriped baseball jersey with a mustard stain on the front, pointing toward the field with one hand, a baseball glove on the other — in the outfield bleachers of a classic American ballpark during a night game. Both wearing team caps and oversized satin starter jackets with giant embroidered logos, snap buttons, synthetic sheen. The ballpark stretches behind: the diamond a perfect geometry of brown dirt and green grass under floodlights, players in pinstripes, the scoreboard beyond center field showing a manual flip-number score display. Families, a man keeping score with pencil and programme, a vendor with a tray of peanuts. Flash lights satin jackets aggressively glossy, background dimming rapidly. Red-eye on the heavyset guy, the hot dog hand slightly blurred. Heavy warm grain, hexagonal flare spots on the cheap lens. Mustard on the jacket is permanent. So is this night. Natural skin texture with subtle pores and micro-imperfections, organic asymmetry in features. --ar 4:5