Lightscapes
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
- Marcel Proust
These photographs offer a different view of possibly familiar scenes. Since 2013, I have been capturing images where water or land appear as luminous yet subtle bands of color. My Lightscapes show these subdued and quiet colors like whispers, soft and ethereal. Each image for me is a contemplation of the fragile beauty and transient quality of nature. Looking out across water or a beautiful stretch of land has an inescapable draw. It is constantly changing with endless horizons and its enduring appeal reaches my deepest emotions.
My Lightscapes are inspired by James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s Nocturnes particularly his Nocturne, “Blue and Silver: Battersea Reach,” about 1872-1878, in the collection of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. I love the soft wash of blue across the canvas, his visual distinctions that hint to the sky, water, and land. I want to bring this dream-like, painterly quality to my photographs.
