This is Cat and Brittany, in Iowa City, Iowa. Photograph by Molly Landreth.
  • Courtesy the artist and Photographic Center Northwest
  • This is Cat and Brittany, in Iowa City, Iowa. Photograph by Molly Landreth.

The red-lipsticked, true-happy smile is right in the center, like a red heart. Radiating out from the symmetry of those two perfectly paired lips is the perfect pairing of everything else in the photograph by Seattle's Molly Landreth. The double stack of pillows matches the double bodies, a billowy nest, punctuated by the pair of pointed wall lamps. The two images on the walls frame the contemporary women in a lineage. They fit—fit together, and fit in, like nesting dolls, to history. They are not only embraced by each other but also by an entire self-contained system. The vibrating visual geometry brings to mind Tee Corinne's kaleidoscopic Yantras. (At Photo Center NW.)