Artwork title : Untitled 01

Portraits of Stumps (series)

Walking around my neighborhood at night, I noticed an array of severed tree stumps, their upper limbs and branches sawn off and carted away; their remaining lower trunks left protruding from the earth, too inconvenient to extract. These stumps became markers or displays for me of human efforts to curtail nature as it outlives its function as a suburban or domestic adornment. The use of modified studio flash allowed me to bring presence, empathy, and a gaze of care to these severed forms; forms that might otherwise remain unseen, blending into the urban landscape in the light of day.

Archival Inkjet Print
60 x 76 cm

Framed