Photographing in Oil is a tongue in cheek title but comes from an earnest place. I was wondering, could I photograph within the constraints of a disciplined landscape painter? The subject matter of the agricultural life of the San Luis Valley lent itself to that project. There's a chance for formal repetition with similar structures and settings. I wanted detail to be a primary aspect of the work and as buildings and electric lines and fields came into the frame I thought of them as choices of the painter's imagination. To take it further I decided upon a fixed focal length of 180mm, experimented and came to an unusual aspect ratio, mainly photographed during the same time of day, and worked at a similar distance from the objects in the frame. Detail and consistency. Composition and repetition. These were new boundaries. I found that having these limitations was a pleasure and allowed the decision-making to really be about the structure of the photograph rather than searching for a moment.
Prints comes in three sizes, editions of 12.