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| Where once there was a medicine cabinet (or two) © 2011 Sarah Barr |
While I was away at residency my husband removed the medicine cabinet in our bathroom. It's the lastest addition to a slow parade of items we've been ripping out of this room. Of course, this daily view always reminds me of my current project.
I met with John Woodin again on Monday night. We spent time talking about the photographs from my third trip inside the church. A few objects in the church were moved around or removed during the abatement giving me some new subjects. A moved bench allowed for a tall cabinet to open revealing a found still life of glass vases. I made three negatives of them and they all have strange light forms that my eyes did not see.
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| Seriously dusty glass vases © 2011 Sarah Barr |
I also moved objects myself to provide better light. The altar area had a folding table and chair, some joint compound buckets and tools. I photographed the area with and without these. The life-size cross I had photographed during my second visit was laying cross side down on the ground. I wanted to photograph it again so that the handles were visible and the footrest more apparent.
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| Staging (?) Cross © 2011 Sarah Barr |
John and I discussed his book City of Memory and the handmade versions he had made before the Center for American Places published it. He also showed me a handmade book (below) he created with his wife artist Amy Orr of his mother's rosaries after they were pulled from her post-Katrina house that I can't stop thinking about.
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| © John Woodin |
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| © John Woodin |
At the end of the evening John showed me how to use a medium format camera he is lending me. So let's see how I do with a square format. Film has been ordered and is on its way.
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