Year: 2021

  • Prepared Food

    Prepared Food

    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…

  • Food Preparation and Whole Ingredients

    Food Preparation and Whole Ingredients

    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…

  • Ice Cubes

    Ice Cubes

    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…

  • Wild Leeks (Ramps)

    Wild Leeks (Ramps)

    “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…

  • Banana Fingers

    Banana Fingers

    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…