"Writing in Light, Shadow", 38" x 48", Oil on Canvas
Tables That Are Not My Own
Tables That Are Not My Own is a series of paintings that focuses on depictions of light and shadow within photographs of tables. The tables, either situated in public or unfamiliar spaces, serve as ritualistic starting places (cycles of eating, working, etc.) which I passively navigate through the camera. Within these spaces, light and shadow form our perception of everything in the scene. I’m interested in how the light connects everything both visually and temporally; the house might be a hundred years old, the table seventy, and the hot tea sitting on it less than a minute, but the light outlasts them all. By abstracting the space through the process of gesturely painting, and treating light and shadow as physically interacting forces, I investigate the link between light with the passing of time.
