2020-2021 Square Foot Studio

My Square Foot Studio work has increasingly changed what and how I see.

For years I focused on the marks of time and elements on the natural and manmade environments. Large and small objects carried their changing marks of time over the years as I returned to certain locations. 

The limits on travel resulting from the pandemic forced me to work in very different ways. At first, I pushed back against the restrictions but as I watched the light moving through its daily path across our sun porch, an idea formed. I “borrowed” a stem from the vase, fully intending to return it but instead, I photographed it up close until the last petal fell away from the stem. 

I saw these objects as larger-than-life-sized, isolated against a solid black background, to be examined closely. I wanted these prints to be seen from across the room and a viewer to be irresistibly drawn to move closer to see more. Making such large prints required a steep (and expensive) learning curve but the final prints made it worth it.

The images in the SFS portfolios are all work created on a stack of boxes surrounded by the windows of our small sun porch. The subject of focus may have been a “star” for a few hours or many days, but always photographed in the natural light between dawn and dusk. 

I photograph with Fuji GFX 50S and 100 cameras.