Bittersweet
Captivated by Edward Weston’s still lifes, I have recently been experimenting with photographing an array of vegetables in black and white. One day my wife pointed to the collection of Baker’s Chocolate Square wrappers that she had been suggestively stacking on a windowsill in my studio. Their precise folds now irregular and their promise fulfilled, they beckoned the light. The unfolding gave each a personality and a new role.
In this series, some empty wrappers are modeled like portraits. Others, isolated from their surroundings, float without scale. Lines of dark brown from the chocolate, now only a memory, as a trace of color. Their story is as elusive as rays of light, their emptiness bittersweet.
