Chaos
We're right in the middle of preparations for the studio move on February 1. This means getting everything ready to get into the moving van(s) to drive the 30 miles or so to the new studio in Acton. No big deal, right?
Let's take a look:
Chaos, right?
A career's work and stuff accumulated over the ten years I have been here. As much as I might like to have less, it seems I always have more. I do know that a surprising amount of the work here was made over the past ten years. I've written this before but the time since I retired in 2012 has been the most productive of my career.
The new studio has had new heat/ac installed, a new ceiling, fresh paint, and the carpet is about halfway done as of this morning. It has even had a couple of walls taken down. Finally, the new frame rack will be built next week, one week before the move.
Once settled I plan on an open studio weekend in April or maybe May. Feel free to email me if you want to be notified: Neal's email
Related series
Newtown, CT 1998
The Newtown series were made of an asssisted living community in rural Connecticut. I was interested in making a group from something that was perhaps a little different than most of the other housing series I was doing at the time.
Looking back on Newtown now (late 2012) is as though someone else made them. I remember being very excited with the idea of walking in closer a few feet, shooting a frame, walking in a few feet closer still, shooting a frame and so on. Of course, now I would have stood in one position and used a lens that would zoom in. There also are two frames of the same scene, one with clouds and the other sunny.
Who would have thought that this same community, fifteen years later, would be rocked by a tragedy of unimagineable proportions.
The prints are silver gelatin and are about 12 inches square.
