In the middle of a pandemic, I was fortunate to be able to go to the Cleveland Museum of Art ( safely masked, socially distanced, and by appointment only) to view the photographic exhibit “Proof”. It was an outstanding display of the work done by many famous photographers back in the day when the final image began with a contact sheet. I was drawn to the section of the exhibit called “Arrays” . The definition of an array is “an ordered series or arrangement” or “an impressive display or range of a particular type of thing”. I began to think about my own photographic work and style, where I am often drawn to patterns in nature. Although it seems that nature is often disordered or tending towards chaos ( as evidenced by our experience in the past year), I like to believe that there is order through repetition in the patterns in nature. I have been exploring creating arrays from my nature photographs to highlight the order in nature’s patterns.
Repetition in Winter, 2020