The Huebris Quatrefolio
First Stanza ~ Regarding Trees
By Michael Weil
Welcome to The Huebris Quatrefolio – First Stanza, the latest collection in my continuous exploration into the art of photography. These images start with a reference to a place once seen, considered, and photographed, then the locus and hues shift to the primal attraction and childhood fascination with light, shade, patterns, and colors. I interpret reality in all my pictures, I don’t try to capture it. Water gathered from the stream is not the stream. A photograph is a fixed, selective, reflection and re-presentation; a synecdoche of the subject first framed in the camera. Each image in The Huebris Quatrefolio is a photo-based interpretation printed in quadrants with all the imposition and handiwork essential to artistic creation. Sir David Brewster, explaining his 1817 invention of the kaleidoscope, took no small amount of joy observing that “every simple form can be converted into a compound or beautiful form by skillfully combining it with an inverted image of itself . . . in order that the direct and the reflected image may join, and constitute one united whole.” Oh what a revelation! Simplicity and complexity uniting as one form: that about sums up my intention in this new series. Intertwined branches, arabesque grasses, elegant blossoms, tessellate ice shards, and ancient trees seem to coalesce into alluringly familiar impossibilities. These places I had been and photographed have become a new exploration into expressive hues, fascinating symmetries, and further adventures in camera work.
Each image is available for purchase in limited editions of 10 prints in each size:
30” x 24” signed, numbered, archival prints on Somerset Velvet Paper - $1100 (as framed in the gallery, $1425)
44” x 36” signed, numbered, archival prints on Somerset Velvet Paper - $1400 (as framed in the gallery, $1995)
Hand deckled prints (as seen in the framed images) are available upon request