A Memory of Light
Reflection Pond
Covid made one of my collectors realize that he wasn’t going to get to travel to all the places on his wish list. Life gets in the way.
He is a war historian with a passion for WWII. One day at his restaurant in late 2020 he floated the idea that I go to France for him to photograph the American Cemetery in Normandy in my distinct style that I call ‘ Comfortable Isolation ’
He wanted the photograph to “feel the weight the of sacrifices” of everyone who landed on the beach that day.
I found this daunting. How do I photograph a cemetery and make it look.. beautiful and heavy at the same time?
What if the weather is terrible (it rained on both day-trips from Paris)?
......What if I take this commission, get paid, fly across the world, and don’t get the shot?
A Memory of Light was captured on the Fuji GFX platform. As with most of my work, A Memory of Light is meant to be experienced at scale. This piece will be 5’/1.5m and displayed in a frame. With the medium format resolution, you can see and feel every detail in each of the thousands of headstones in the photograph.
Sharing this with Sean at his restaurant in WA, and he was very happy with artworks.
A Memory of Light
Each piece in the collection is a 1/1 physical work and a 1/1 digital asset. The physicals will be produced on Lumachrome paper, mounted to acrylic, and framed. I fly to Vegas on Monday to sign the works.
Each artwork comes with an NFT representation and an NFT of the COA (which is serialized to the artwork).
Each comes with an NFT representation and an NFT of the COA (which is serialized to the artwork).
The result is the Immutable provenance of artwork and its historical pricing. Digital assets are just like anything else you own. The owner can pass them on to their family, sell them, or trade them. The important part is that the price history and the transfer of ownership is recorded.