Year: 2021

Reading through my mother’s recipe book I came across her date and nut cake. I decided to make it, in part because of the memory of it and in part because I wanted to bake something that used the bundt cake form (which was included in the photograph in the previous post). My mother got…

I modelled this image in the tradition of the Renaissance still life. I chose that style because I wanted to implicitly set the frame of reference back in time. John Berger submits that such paintings were a form of advertising one’s wealth and position. I’m not trying to advertise wealth, rather traditional ways of doing…

While I was taking pictures of some found glasses, I had a thought about using ice as a prop. The inter-play of light and shadow created various different shapes. For example, in the first one can see on the bottom right, the profile of a person (a Mayan may be) looking down. It speaks to…

“Allium tricoccum known as ramp, ramps, ramson, wild leek, wood leek, or wild garlic is a North American species of wild onion widespread across eastern Canada and the eastern United States. Many of the common English names for this plant are also used for other Allium species, particularly the similar Allium ursinum, which is native…

I am continuing on the theme of food, presented as a still life. Even though there are six bananas in each bunch, when I saw the image it reminded me of the fingers on a prone hand, which made me think of all the things a hand itself stands for. Hand images have been around…