Still-Lives_Zine

(Project featured in solo exhibition)

2021

6″x8.25″ perfect bound, 100 lb. satin, 110 lb. soft lamination

“Still-Lives” is a study of relationships between seemingly unrelated photographs in the form of diptychs. The title is obviously a play on words of still life art – but is also a conceptual play on the genre’s subject matter. Still life art is typically inanimate and/or organic objects that are organized and composed for the image. Often times there is deeper meaning in the relationships between subject matter and/or their placement in the image.

In this study, each set of photographs has one with a subject being inanimate or inorganic and the other a living form. These sets of photographs are all paired for some sort of relationship(s) that connects them. This could be a similar or harmoniously contrasting composition, color, emotion, subject matter, form, etc. The photographs together, reveal these the relationships within one another and take on new meaning as a duo. What do you see?

*All images; taken, developed, and scanned by yours truly. Printing provided by Mixam USA*