Artist's Statement
I have been photographing still lifes – from fruit to furniture – editorially and commercially for the past seventeen years for clients such as The New York Times Magazine, Real Simple, Bergdorf Goodman and House and Garden. During this time I have been collecting visual delicacies in my head: the way the window in back of the plate of food I'm shooting aligns with the horizon of the tabletop, or the way the space seems to flatten and then retreat around that chair. Now in my own work I make these formal observations the subject and point of my photos -- where the space between things and the light illuminating them all hold equal weight with the objects.
I like to play with limits, to work in a proscribed setting with just a few objects a plain background and a tabletop set like a stage or an altar straight-on to the camera. This is a welcome retreat from the daily clutter of consumerism and information overload, a meditative exercise in slowing down and looking at the same things again and again.
Light is captured illuminating my simple objects, rendering them luminous or flat.
I have a reverence for natural window light. I wait for it to perform. |
COMPANY: home • about ruby beets • press & media • contact us