Tree Branches, Autumn Leaves

Near Flagstaff, AZ (Artist Statement)

Tree Branches, Autumn Leaves: Near Flagstaff, AZ, USA (2003) - Abstract photograph looking down though tree trunks at rocks and a carpet of fall leaves

This photograph reminds me of two early works by the great American painter Andrew Wyeth – 'The Hunter' and 'Spring Freshet'. The feel in this photograph is similar – a detached look at an existential season.

My Grandmother gave me her faded, treasured book of Wyeth plates for Christmas in 2001. I have spent many hundreds of hours with it. The artist's quiet, unsettling compositional style has impacted me immensely.

I made this photograph exactly two years later and half a continent away. The leaves on the ground are the same colour as the brittle, dried one I found pressed between the pages of my Grandmother's book.

— Tree Branches, Autumn Leaves: Near Flagstaff, AZ, USA (2003)

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