Lightscapes
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
- Marcel Proust
Since 2013, I have been drawn to a particular kind of seeing — one in which water and land dissolve into luminous, near-abstract bands of color. They are not landscapes in any conventional sense. This work finds its deepest inspiration in James McNeill Whistler’s Nocturnes — particularly Blue and Silver: Battersea Reach (c. 1872–78), in the collection of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Whistler understood that a scene could be distilled rather than depicted: that sky, water, and land might be suggested through a wash of tone rather than rendered in detail. It was a radical proposition in his time. These photographs pursue the same instinct.
