Tofani • Third Floor
During the years I made the drawings that eventually became the images in a series of 17 books, I lived in a large, high ceilinged, Victorian house. I would often sit in the large room where I’d made those drawings and look up at the ceiling and at the windows and the lovely spaces and think that I should photograph those spaces. But I never did.
Some years later we moved into another large building with high ceilings and even bigger windows. And in this home I made photographs. Tofani is a book made in the first years living here. It is titled Tofani because the building has that name inscribed at the top of its front wall.
The Tofani book is a long skinny shape because it’s made of paper cut offs from an earlier project. Some of the pages have hinges showing rather than hidden in back because sometimes when patching in a page it gets confusing. The photographs are taped in place and their borders are not quite uniform. The whole thing is a bit rough. But it was a beginning.
The photographs were made in our new home. The paint was fresh and white. The chair newly restored with black webbing. The just built studio book shelves were lightly loaded.
Time and the light have worn and softened things. The webbing on that chair has been bleached by the sun to a silvery grey. I continue to photograph in the space, following the light over seasons and times of day. The Tofani photographs were a beginning that has evolved into a series of books and images I’ve titled lnscapes.
More about Inscapes in another post.
Tofani is a unique book. 6 x 12.5 inches. Twenty-nine archival ink jet prints mounted on Stonehenge paper, museum board ends, black 1-ply museum board cover. 2011.