Though Georges de La Tour was famous and prolific in his day, fewer than two-dozen paintings by the French seventeenth century baroque painter now survive. Influenced by Caravaggio, La Tour explored chiaroscuro, the high-contrast world of candlelight, making him interesting to photographers who deal in light. Works depicting narrative scenes of deceit, implying a complicit viewer, are also intriguing to the modern audience used to questioning appearances. I find details from his paintings lend themselves to a photographic collage exploration using layering and juxtaposition to create a surreal, trompe l’oeil portrait. This image questions reality and invites a closer look.