Still / Not Still

Ingrid Schaffner curated a show of Bill Walton’s work at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Philadelphia..  The exhibition was built around a reconstruction of Walton’s studio.  This was a fitting and interesting idea because Walton’s sculpture was inspired and influenced by the materials and tools with which he worked.

All the elements of the Walton studio were packed up and delivered to ICA.  During installation the sculpture, tools and materials were laid out on tables covered with the packing blankets and plastic sheeting used in the move.  The black packing blankets with their stitched patterns made beautiful backgrounds for the slabs and circles of metal laid on them.  Sculpture sat nearby cardboard boxes, each making shapes that seemed to mimic the other.  Ingrid had beautiful dark hair which she piled up on her head.  The shapes of Ingrid’s hair also seemed to mimic the sculpture.  

These photographs were made with my first cell phone camera.  The small light weight camera seemed to allow me to move faster and closer.   As I was sequencing the images for the book, the pairing of objects as still life and the moving figure of Ingrid seemed to me to create an interesting tension.  Hence, Still Not Still.

Still / Not Still made in an edition of 2. 8 x 12.5 inches. Thirty archival inkjet prints mounted with artist tape on stonehenge paper, museum board ends, bound with black 1-ply museum board jacket. 2012.