Pt. 3 in a series diving deeper into each photo in my show Greenwood, which can be viewed upstairs at Coquette in New Orleans
TODAY:
Flowers on Blue, 2017
Pigment ink on baryta paper, 24 x 30 inches
Signed edition of 5 in a handmade Cherry frame
I think that if everyone at the opening of my show had 750 American dollars budgeted for a framed print, 96% of them would’ve purchased Flowers on Blue. It’s
I made this photograph before a dinner with friends in the Bywater. It’s good to get places early, with your camera on you, so that you can take photos of your immediate environment while the light is nice. Many of my photos have been made in a similar context.
There is nothing profound to say about this photo — it is exactly what it appears to be.
Upon its reproduction for this show, the post-scan edit was particularly challenging with this one. I wanted to be sure that the photo was absolutely true to how it felt in that moment, and I think I managed to fine-tune it to near perfection. I actually left some dust on the image because of the way it complemented the texture of the house and the light, and because sometimes imperfections are needed to ground a thing.
The print stands out among the rest of the show. I placed it at the entrance of the room, because it is the photo most removed from the narrative of it all — and I thought it could make a nice welcome piece. It did.
One more thing. This photo wouldn’t be the same without the shadows created by the bougainvillea blooms. The way I see it, those shadows are the subject of the photo and so force an existential question: which is more real, the object or its shadow?
My inclination is of course to say the shadow. What do you think?
Well, this picture certainly sings to me. I love it! Beautiful work. Could we show it on FlakPhoto?