Four years in the making and two years of Covid waiting…the entire body of work Vestiges: A Last Stand of Bristlecone Pine is on display in a Solo Exhibition at Michael Warren Contemporary Gallery in Denver!
Small edition on display
This work, 45 portraits of Bristlecone Pines in Colorado, examines a range of concepts from living and dying, to attachment and the thin veil that exists between temporal reality and transcendence. The grove of nearly 1,400-year-old ancient trees exists in that balance, which I underscore by photographing them with 36-year expired Polaroid Type 665 film I had found in a storage unit—itself a vestige of photography’s past. The film perfectly captured these ideas in a way no other medium could have.
The archival pigment prints are of limited edition printed on watercolor paper. For a glimpse of the process of making the work, see the video by following this link or click the photo below to Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/675502841
Special Thanks for Video by Circe Baumgartner