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“Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.“ ~ Edward Weston
“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.” ~ Ansel Adams
ONE OF THE ISSUES WITH A DISCURSIVE PROMISCUITY (albeit a “good” issue iMo) manner of making pictures, AKA: making a lot of pictures of any thing and/or every thing, is that, on occasion, I have “discovered” a body of work (hiding in plain sight) comprised of pictures that were randomly intermingled within my voluminous picture library. I found one such unknown body of work ( approximately 38 pictures)-I have labeled it as morning coffee-a couple days ago.
BACKGROUND (not an Artist Statement): virtually every morning that I am at home, I have a morning routine that begins with sitting at the kitchen island and having my morning coffee, sometimes with a side of a cinnamon sugar donut or a bowl of oatmeal loaded with blueberries. I read the newspaper and check out the NY Times and a couple photo sites on my iPad. During that time I am, on some occasions, “distracted”-that is to write that my eye and sensibilities have been pricked-by the morning light in combination with the “arrangements” on the kitchen sink counter. On those occasions when the combination feels right, I make a picture.
On other occasions when that combination just is not right, I often notice-when getting a coffee refresh-that something interesting is going on in the kitchen sink or on the counter and/or island. Of course, the kitchen sink pictures end up in my kitchen sink body of work where, up ‘til now, they remained hidden and out of sight, morning coffee wise.
One of the things I find interesting and somewhat surprising about finding the morning coffee pictures is how many of them, approximately 20, were made using the full iPhone frame. Conversely, most of the sink / counter pictures were made in the square format. In any case, I feel comfortable with the full-frame pictures inasmuch as I am secure in my ability to see and find interesting form in that format.
The next trick, re: morning coffee, is to come up with an Artist Statement that is, a.) short and sweet, and, b.) makes sense.