TITLE: The Light Recordings, Vol. 4

I photograph amidst the meadows and forests of the Catskill Mountains. There is no software involved in this photography, simply a camera and a lens. In these environments, I play with optics and sunlight to cause the physical world to disappear and be replaced with images of pure light. I refer to these works as Light Recordings because they are unaltered photographs of light itself. The genesis of the Light Recordings was my father’s death in 2020. He was a jazz bassist and composer, and our relationship was filled with conversations on improvisation and a continual focus to let go of creative control; in his world view, we are conduits of our own personal muses. It was in my grieving that I began to orient my attention to sunlight as the subject of my photography rather than the objects it made visible. For me, the Light Recordings are a visual diary of my path through grief, of responding to my father’s last request to “rejoice!”, and a continuation of our conversations on tonality, improvisation, and creativity.

AUTHOR: Eliott Peaocck (United States)