Two and a Half Season
Late fall, winter, and early spring. This suite of photo-based prints documents my physical access to nature through the seasons where it is least present.
I began the editorial process of image-making with stacks of black and white photocopies of the collected imagery. This was an apt first translation of imagery depicting upstate New York and the slate-gray stone formations that become visually dominant in the absence of foliage. As I combined, layered, and rearranged images that were made over several months, time seemed to contract and loose its linear quality. I manipulated scale as though tuning a radio dial. This visual strategy merges the minute experience of plant life and the grand abstraction of landscape.
By connecting—through insertion—interiors and landscapes, the resulting works conjure the emotional conditions of cultivating an interior relationship with nature. This is a retelling of the story of change – of mutable place, solitude, and seasons – and healing through the passing of a seemingly short period of time.
Two and a Half Seasons, solo exhibtion at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens in Richmond, VA. June 15 - August 29, 2017
Untitled, 2017
11 x 17
Photocopies on paper