Cold Comfort

My photo entitled "Cold Comfort" has been selected for exhibit at the 2021 juried Collective Visions Gallery (CVG) in Bremerton, Washington. The competition's juror for the show is Michael D'Alessandro, Executive Director at the Northwinds Arts Center in Port Townsend.

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Cold Comfort - Fort Flagler  2019

Following is my end of a discussion of the work with David, my brother, and favorite critic.

"I took this photo up at Fort Flagler. The chair was abandoned in a pile of rubbish near the end of an old loading dock and had to be moved up next to the door. An overcast November day.

Your analysis of the photos is exactly my intention. And your boldly detailing your thoughts with such confidence tells me we share a view of the world and its dangerous, or at the minimum, ambiguous, nature. I think of the chair as “cold comfort.” Take the mind's image of a veranda on a warm summer night, witness to the neighbors as they parade in front of an inviting southern home with all of its friendly hospitality - then twist it. A hard chair, actually a shell of a chair, sitting in front of the chain link, the bars, the locked gate and an exposed porch, with no warm light coming from within. The angle of the shot, the strong diagonal shapes out of balance, make the photo teeter. And hopefully make the viewer uncomfortable. I darkened the edge of thick mat a bit in Photoshop to heighten that sense of unbalance - of suspension off the plane of the porch. It is a cold day and there is no comfort to be had on this porch."

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