In Situ Traces of Morandi
In Situ: Traces of Morandi, is the culmination of my 2-year residency at museo Morandi, Casa Morandi in Bologna, and Morandi’s summer home in Grizzana. I have long admired the austere structural logic and poetry of Giorgio Morandi’s still life paintings. Working in situ at Morandi’s studio, with a practiced intuition, I conceived of new constructions with the objects he so carefully arranged and interpreted. I abstracted these forms both formally and conceptually, using colored gels, and created new frameworks through repeated imagery. I stripped the patina from Morandi’s objects, and made ephemeral moments in cast shadows. These still lifes deal with the compression of space and the transparency of form, creating the intangibility that supports these concepts. In photographing an inherently immaterial intangible interaction with light I composed vaporous images. The solid objects appear elusive, caught in the vibratory aura at the edge of a shadow.