It was my interest in the 17th century Still Life painter Maria van Oosterwijck (1630-1693) that inspired me to begin a photographic body of work using digital projections of portrait paintings. In the intimacy of my darkened studio I spent time with this fellow painter, as portrayed by her friend and admirer Wallerant Vaillant in 1671. While taking pictures of her amongst my own paintings and spaces, the shadows my body would cast obscured telltale details of dress that kept her firmly sited in her own century. In the colored light of my darkened studio we painters were together, entangled – untethered from the past.
Collection of the Rijksmuseum
In The Studio With Maria van Oosterwijck
Archival pigment prints 22″ X 22″ 2021-2022
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