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"Elton self portrait: a white sport coat and a pink carnation " . The lyrics of an old Pat Boone song "a white sport coat and a pink carnation; I'm all dressed up for the dance..."
(c) 2006 Elton Houck...
This is a photo of my youth...a memory trace to the past. It has been said when your memories are more numerous than your dreams-- then your life is over...perhaps that is why I am taking this trip down memory lane...perhaps it is a milestone marker between what was and what is to come....
Perhaps you think this is another artist in the throes of vainglory and vanity...Perhaps I am doing this series of self-portraits to recall a time when all one worried about was what they were going to wear on their Saturday night date...and there were no thoughts of death and mortality...and especially no thoughts of a son that is dieing of cancer...so perhaps this is an excape into the past when eternity was strung out before me like the endless stars in the sky...and I did not have to ponder the thought of buying new grave clothes...perhaps...