In March of 2020, as New York City went into lockdown, like many others I became an “artist-in-residence” in my own home. A large drafting table next to a window in an upstairs room became the center of my photography as I began to work on a new series of still-life photographs. It has grown into an exploration of natural and seasonal cycles, the ephemeral qualities of light, memories, objects, and living things, and their passage from freshness to fading, remnants, and regeneration.
A selection of images from the next year and a half became my book: “Chiaroscuro – Studies in Light and Shadow”. This is part of the introduction:
I come to photography with a painter's eye. For me, it's about the light. Sunlight, shadows, reflections, and transparency. Light bouncing off reflective surfaces, light revealing structure. Objects illuminated, objects emerging from the darkness.
I am particularly interested in exploring aspects of light, pattern and texture. I love to find unexpected details; the things right under our noses that we don’t take the time to see.
The fullness of bloom lives in the moment. What was once alive leaves a remnant behind – an empty shell, a white bone, a withered stalk. Objects evoke the lives of the people who handled them. They come together in a landscape of memories arranged in the chiaroscuro of natural light. A reminder of life, a reminder of its completion.
Andrea Zinn
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* This exhibition is available online only.
