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Artist |
Langham, Robert |
Caption |
Vernal Pool, Spring, 2009 |
Collection |
TMA |
Credit Line |
Gift of the Artist |
Date |
2009 |
Description |
Photograph of a forested plot of land. The piece's title, Vernal Pool, refers to a shallow depression in the ground where water fills it for only parts of the year. This vernal pool is surrounded by trees and fallen leaves, with a road running behind it. Artist Robert Langham is a naturalist and environmentalist. Langham's hometown Tyler is in the Blackfork Creek watershed, high in the Neches River drainage. His Blackfork Bestiary series is a portfolio of live animals and insects from this Blackfork Creek ecosystem. The animals and insects he photographs are then safely released back into nature. In Langham's still-life work, he creates what he refers to as a "kinetic still life". He reinterprets what we think of as a traditional still life with movement and fiction done in camera without post-processing trickery. Langham's work is deeply rooted in a sense of place, reaching deep into the Texan psyche to explore the whimsy and endless possibilities that the open expanses of the Southwestern landscape have inspired, and continue to inspire, within imagination. |
Dimensions |
H-19.875 W-23.875 inches |
Medium |
Silver gelatin print/Black and white photograph |
Catalog Number |
2010.03.12 |
Title |
Vernal Pool, Spring, 2009 |