multiplying light
We’re planning a trip to Boston and southeastern New England this month. One of the things I’m most looking forward to is seeing Cape Cod for the first time since moving from Rhode Island twenty years ago, especially since this will be Barry’s first visit. It may seem strange, but while looking at these photographs of old things in interior spaces, I’m thinking of the extraordinary fresh light I’ve always associated with that long, sandy peninsula surrounded by the sea. The old house which shelters this furniture, ceramic and glass stands at the very entrance to the Cape and even its darker corners somehow share in that light.
I first saw these gorgeous prints attached to the wall of Nicole Cherubini‘s pottery studio last week. I couldn’t get them out of my mind, so I asked her if I could have some jpegs to go with a short post. Once I had them on the screen in front of me I decided I couldn’t leave out any of them, so I’ve included thumbnails of each.
She sent this short note to accompany them:
These images are from an on-going project documenting my grandmother’s house, both the interiors and insides. By cataloguing her surroundings, I am able to enter into this developed aesthetic and come to a more complete understanding of excess, abundance and at times, their subsidiary, decay. These intimate portraits function as both finished works as well as source material for other works.
The final pieces are 30″x40″ highly saturated C-Prints mounted on
aluminum.
Wellll, . . . maybe I’ll admit that at this moment the last image is my favorite.
[images from Nicole Cherubini]
I really like the second one, with the out of focus coloured goblets in the foreground. It’s the sneakiest one – super voyeuristic – though I like the one you picked too. I’ve been thinking about them for a couple of days actually; all of these have a bit of the peeping tom in them and I find them beautifully composed as well.