Affinity: likeness based on relationship or casual connections or ties. ‘The moments of charged propinquity take various forms: here a shared hue, there a glancing consonance in geometry; iconographic dopplegangers leap towards each other from the corners of the earth, uncanny twins birthed by different mothers.’ (D. Graham Butnett, Affinities, Thames and Hudson, 2022). We discussed Jasper Johns’s painting Skin with John O’Hara Poem at the U3A this morning and I saw an affinity with the Tokyo Compression pictures of Michael Wolf.
