Shadow play

In addition to writing, I am fascinated with light and colour. Shadows have really been catching my eye lately. Here is the result of a photography experiment I conducted yesterday. In this series of 14 photos, the shifting colour tones and emphases on different elements of the image evoke different moods, from somber to playful to compelling. [Check out post about the exhibit of this series at Havana Art Gallery.]

L’Ouevre was the title of the 14th novel in Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, first published in serial form in 1885. I once wrote a biography about Zola for a writing class. Interesting how this word popped into my head two decades later as I was thinking of names for these images!

Aged newspaper
longing
Black pencil
fade
Colored chalk
paris
Brush strokes
rain
Chrome
moonscape
Charcoal
1800
Colored foil
psyche
Glowing edges
night
Lamp shadow
clarity
Pencil
bliss
Soft plastic
mindfuck
Cyanotype
nostalgia
Neon glow
oddity
Colored edges
l’ouevre

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