Walden Cabin Path will be one of fifteen new works I am showing at Lacoste Gallery in Concord, Massachusetts opening June 5. http://www.lacostegallery.com/
I shot this 360 degree vertical panorama standing on the water line. This shallow bay in Walden Pond faces the short path to the site of Thoreau’s cabin. I wanted the oval shape to emphasize the water across from and at the base of the path.
This is a 360 degree vertical panorama shot thigh deep at Horseneck Beach in Westport. I wanted to see the lines of an approaching wave, a breaking wave, and a receding wave all at the same time. By chance a sand castle was being built in the scope of the panorama. A microforcast of Nature’s inevitable reordering of manmade organization.
Shooting from the car on the road overlooking Walden Pond during a rainstorm. I am indulging in another two for one water experience.
Usually sometime in February there is a warm spell after significant snowfall. A light rain can collect on overhead trees before dripping down to puncture the soft crust snow.
From the afternoon on I was shooting across the Charles River from the Cambridge side toward Boston. After dark the moon was visible over the Hancock building. One second exposures gave me lines of the tops of the waves in the river.
Late in the afternoon, I drove my friend’s borrowed pickup to the beach at Nauset on Cape Cod in time to shoot the 20 + photos at the ocean’s edge before the sun sank below the dunes. The beach was deserted, footprints the only sign of human activity, the ocean immense. I consolidated the photos into a seamless, horizontal, 360 degree panorama that allowed me to see what was behind me at the same time as what was in front. I was surprised to see the footprints in the sand around where I stood become the dominant element in the picture. Is this work a photograph? Or a print, ceramic, or painting? All of the above.
Willard Brook in Northern Massachusetts cuts through eroded boulders. I created a vertical panorama to see the flow of water coming toward and away from me in a single image.
Coming to the Ocean through a path opening from a sea grass.
Often after creating a panorama I discover an unintended but more appropriate image/idea. Here as if from within a womb of grass the ocean as playground beckons.
Recent work of mine has been about seeing what we are surrounded by but don’t perceive. “Long Nook” began as a formal exercise, a vertical panorama of the division line of land and sea at Cape Cod between the Massachusetts coast and the Atlantic Ocean. From single photos taken just as each wave crested I spliced together an all at once 360-degree vertical revolution of what the camera recorded.
In the assembled vertical panorama of “Long Nook,” I see the water as it rushes up over the land. It is a flood tide that does not recede, an emblem of the rise in ocean levels, an inevitable consequence of global warming.
If you are in Philadelphia you can see a few of my pieces at the Meltem Birey Gallery http://www.flotjet.com/index.html
One of the works is Colony – from Horseneck beach in Westport, Massachusetts. This piece has actual penetrations of the fired clay surface as a nod to the vessel making tradition and enclosed space created from earth materials of ceramics .