Lumbering Form

2015-16

I built a set of posable table legs out of lumber to support a table top to make a series of still life photographs. I never made those pictures. I proceeded to photograph the lumber form. A part of my process became my primary subject.

Lumbering Form exists as a unique set of 14" x 11" prints as well as a unique, handbound photobook, 10.25" x 8.5" 1.25"

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2015-16, archival pigment print, 14" x 11"

Lumbering Form

2016, unique photobook, 42 archival pigment prints on matte paper paired into signatures and stitched together

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2015-16

One day in Lincoln City, Oregon, I built adjustable table legs out of lumber, to support a table top, in order to make a series of experimental still life pictures in the coastal sun. I never made the still life pictures. Instead, the lumber form became my subject and I proceeded to photograph it in various poses.

Lumbering Form is a unique, custom photobook, 10.25" x 8.5" 1.25,” comprised of forty-two pigment prints on Red River matte paper paired into signatures and stitched together with a vellum cover. The unique binding structure is loose for a book and mimics the shifting behavior of the lumber form in the photographs. The book was bound at AIR Serenbe near Atlanta, Georgia.

Lumbering Form also exists as a unique set of 14" x 11" archival pigments prints on Hahnemühle photo rag pearl. The prints are housed in a plain black museum box and interleaved with archival vellum sheets. Included with the portfolio are the trimmed edges of the prints which have been tied with thin strips of photo rag pearl paper.