Springtime seems so far away on a rainy May day like today....

I made these in April when the crab apples were in full bloom.

Collected Objects

Installation in a Landscape

For the land art project I decided to make an installation that would reflect the digital collage images I have working on the past few month dealing with bringing the inside outside and so I used my collection of Turkish rugs and kilims. The idea for this installation stems from my own photographic practice where I collage images from catalogs into landscape photographs. Working in the physical landscape, using my whole physical body to move the rugs around and the personal nature and meaning of the objects of using the rugs allowed me to have a better understanding of how objects work in the landscape and then within the frame of the camera.

The Gleaners of Peter's Hill

My very own gleaner's landscape. Admittedly they were foraging dandelion leaves, great in salad. They were a Greek family, grandparents, daughter, grand daughter, they carried baskets.

April

Glad to have Myboretum to put my flower photos. I get great satisfaction in making these sort of images, as if I am fulfilling a contractual agreement with photography to make cheesy pictures.
Arnold is so beautiful, smells good, looks good.

4.11.10

4.5.10
Dafs

New Born Nature

Beauty comes to those who wait.
Is that a saying or did I just make it one?
It is true.
This first winter in Boston was rough. It has nothing to do with snow, or the lack thereof but more to do with the deadness of everything. Light is blue, the air is cold. Trees are bare, green is brown life is dead. So why am I still alive?
I never feel right in the winter. When I look at my view I see a sort of reflection in the landscapes condition and my human condition.
In the winter when Arnold is trodden and tired I see my own darkness in the low hanging sun and gusting winds.
Now in the spring. I am spring. No really my name translates to springtime in Turkish and some other languages. Arnold can hardly hold back his love for spring. Every day blossoms, buds, leaves,s birds, snakes, critters, streams, ponds, life life life.
Arnold going through puberty is an intense experience. The colors become more saturated everyday, the shape of trees fill out with buds creating unbelievably intricate textures and forms.
The spring in Boston looks to be fantastic and I know summer will be so pleasant.
It's all the sweeter because we waited.

Walk Thru

A walk through my space.