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Having been fascinated with the Fall season all my life, to create a series of images that focuses on the spirit of this season is very high on my to-do list. There are two things that I would like to convey with this series. First is to celebrate the explosion of colors of the Fall season and secondly, to depict its transitional spirit. The Autumn Ephemera series aims to tell these stories using the natural shape, texture, and color of this beautiful season.
The idea for this series was first conceived in Fall 2015 when I was shooting the Aspens in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. But even after a few trips to the Sierra Nevada that same year and the following year, I was unable to sketch out more concretely how I would like the images to look like. I tried a few things with the aspen groves in the Sierras but none of them really resonated with my vision. Something was missing.
Very late in 2016 on a winter trip to the Zion National Park, I saw some gambel oaks along the way which, for whatever reason, really made an impression on me. These trees stood out really well in my memory and I had an epiphany on how I would like to move forward with this series. So, when I went to Zion this year (2017), I was really happy to turn some of those mental images into reality.
The inspiration for this work comes from the design of the traditional Indonesian Batik where patterns emerge from intertwined lines and shapes very much like an arabesque. You can see this kind of arrangement in the leaves and sticks of the gambel oaks in the images. The leaves create texture and bring colors to the image and the trunks and branches form structures, or scaffolds if you will, from which the images draw their lives.
The series is meant to be enjoyed as a triptych but you could peruse the detail of the individual pieces in this album.
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4 imagesHaving been fascinated with the Fall season all my life, to create a series of images that focuses on the spirit of this season is very high on my to-do list. There are two things that I would like to convey with this series. First is to celebrate the explosion of colors of the Fall season and secondly, to depict its transitional spirit. The Autumn Ephemera series aims to tell these stories using the natural shape, texture, and color of this beautiful season. The idea for this series was first conceived in Fall 2015 when I was shooting the Aspens in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. But even after a few trips to the Sierra Nevada that same year and the following year, I was unable to sketch out more concretely how I would like the images to look like. I tried a few things with the aspen groves in the Sierras but none of them really resonated with my vision. Something was missing. Very late in 2016 on a winter trip to the Zion National Park, I saw some gambel oaks along the way which, for whatever reason, really made an impression on me. These trees stood out really well in my memory and I had an epiphany on how I would like to move forward with this series. So, when I went to Zion this year (2017), I was really happy to turn some of those mental images into reality. The inspiration for this work comes from the design of the traditional Indonesian Batik where patterns emerge from intertwined lines and shapes very much like an arabesque. You can see this kind of arrangement in the leaves and sticks of the gambel oaks in the images. The leaves create texture and bring colors to the image and the trunks and branches form structures, or scaffolds if you will, from which the images draw their lives. The series is meant to be enjoyed as a triptych but you could peruse the detail of the individual pieces in this album.
10 imagesWhen you look up and stare at the night sky at the desert, you ponder your own existence. David put it so eloquently: "For I will behold your heavens, the works of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have founded"
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