As something of a bookend or at least a place marker here, if this thread isn't played out now, I believe that in the interest of fairness and decorum it ought to continue only as a discussion of the genre of photorealism and not of any individual practitioners, particularly those absent from the discussion.
In retrospect, my own effort in this regard was insufficient and counterproductive, as by trying to give the artist the benefit of the doubt, I unwittingly just kept his name in play, when the focus should have been on the work itself.
We learn by doing, and sometimes by re-doing.
(And sometimes by do-be-doing.)
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