![]() A few of the items in any given image may have been recently acquired, but most of them I have saved for years, knowing I might do something with them one day. – These still-life photographs are composed, with slow deliberation, over the course of many hours or days, and sometimes weeks or months, with instinct and impulse my main guides. In recent years, I have been thinking more and more of Samuel Beckett in connection with my still-life photographs they have some of that spirit. But my work is perhaps less whimsical than Cornell’s boxes, and less visionary than Huxley’s doors, and more concerned with memory and symbol. Considering the meaning of what one might put there or find there, one might even speak of the “drawers” of perception (with a nod to Aldous Huxley the pun is irresistible). – An artist with whom I feel a certain kinship in this regard is Joseph Cornell, who was also fond of using boxes, drawers, trays, shelves, and the like as settings for his constructions. They might be merely unusual, rather bizarre, or quite unrecognizable, like the “objets inconnus” of the surrealists. Others were selected for their physical qualities, or for their potential to be viscerally or subconsciously evocative. Often this was something of personal significance, as with a souvenir or a memento. ![]() ![]() I saved many of the objects in these still-life photographs because of something I saw or felt in them. – Objects of many kinds have always fascinated me – not just for their physical qualities such as shape and texture, but often for the unique resonances they induce in the mind. ![]()
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