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"I received a Brownie camera when I was eight and have been making photographs ever since. I have photographed in faraway places—the North Sea, Japan, Belize—and in places closer to home—especially the Atlantic coast from Cape Cod to Maine. I love photography in part because the camera is such a good traveler. I work now with two digital cameras, and an old, nearly vintage, manual Nikon SLR. The oyster shells photographed in this series are from Wellfleet, and the series title is a nod to MFK Fisher’s classic book about the delectable bivalve. I enjoy the way things like these shells, closely seen, take on surprising metaphorical qualities. The oyster photographs were taken in ambient light with no special filters; the luminosity comes from the shells themselves. The images in this exhibit are part of an ongoing focus on organic process and mutability. Influences on my work include the meditative paintings of Agnes Martin and Mark Rothko; Taoist rocks, and the paintings of Jean Baptiste Chardin, in which Chardin shows us how to thrill to, for example, a kitchen spoon. What I like about these traditions is an affection for the marks of time and weather, for the accidents of materials doing what they will, and for the sheer pleasure of unscripted seeing." - Emily Hiestand Emily Hiestand is represented by Commercial Street: 508.349.9451
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