TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY K.B. DIXON
It has been months now since my last foray into still-life, and I am still here sequestered, hiding as best I can from the prowling plague known as Covid-19. The people I am sequestered with are still not interested in being photographed, and the places I am sequestered in still remain private rather than public—so, as a photographer trying to stay photographically fit, I am obliged to turn my attention yet again to the charm of “things.”
In previous installments I focused my attention on household goods, on objects near and sometimes dear (the utilitarian, the talismanic, and the decorative): here I am taking a look at something more “abstract”—the basic building blocks of visual art, the meditative mystery of form.
My hope has been to produce a moment of order and quiet at a time of disorder and noise, and to offer a sort of half-assed homage to art’s essential elements and to the great Italian painter, Giorgio Morandi, one of the still-life genre’s most gifted obsessives.
BALL, CYLINDER, CUBE, 2020
BALL, CYLINDER, PYRAMID, CUBE, 2020
CYLINDER, PYRAMID, CUBE, 2020
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BALL, CYLINDER (BACK), CUBE, 2020
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BALL, CYLINDER (FRONT), CUBE, 2020
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Photographer and writer K.B. Dixon is a frequent contributor to ArtsWatch. His earlier piece in this series are:
Among several other projects for ArtsWatch, Dixon’s series of portraits of Oregon writers and visual artists is ongoing, including his most recent:
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