Screens, Horn Pond, Woburn MA
My photographs of Horn Pond explore the visual and emotional paradoxes of the screen.
As we walk through woods, fields, by lakes or mountainsides, anywhere in nature for that matter, we filter out much of what confronts the eye. In natural habitats, screens, whether in the form of an impenetrable wall of brush or a tangle of branches, are everywhere. However, as immediately apparent as these screens might be, we look through them, not at them.
The goal of this unconscious editing is to see more and see it clearly. Ironically, the result is we see less and we see it dimly. But the camera, by its design, does not have the human capacity to filter or deny what confronts it. The camera must record every layer or screen in its purview.
My photographs of Horn Pond in Woburn, MA are an exploration of the screens and the layers that abound in nature. These screens are the branches, brambles, tree trunks, vines, or foliage which assert themselves in riotous and chaotic ways.
The screen has great power. It can entice or deny, it can invite or evict. A screen entangles and liberates, it obscures and illuminates.
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