Winter Clumps
Studio Nocturne continually seeks inspiration from the world under us to inform the office’s work. One such intance in the unique conditions found in the North Cascade Mountains during winter storms. One finds that their depth perseption becomes obscured and the things around them appear as shapes in a Modernist painting. Below is a photographic exploration of that tension between flatness and depth through a typical Picturesque subject, a clump of trees.
Precedent Images:
View Near Penmanmawr, 1809 - William Gilpin
Denbigh Castle, 1809 - William Gilpin
White on White, 1918 - Kazimir Malevich
Reading List:
The Picturesque - Architecture, Digust, and Other Irregularities
2007 - John Macarthur
The Search for the Picturesque
1990 - Malcolm Andrews
Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty, On Picturesque Travel, and On Sketching Landscape
1792 - William Gilpin