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The Barrister's Bedroom

Eric L Hansen

Photograph: LiteJet print on Fuji Archival paper, unframed. Edition of 26

38"x25"x0.10"
1 lb

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$685.00

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I made this photograph of an empty room from my own experience with home and family. The past is here through memory but sometimes I imagine what’s going to happen, so the future is here too through imagination. When memory and imagination bring the past and the future together, they collide in a single instant, a Eureka moment richly laden with meaning more felt than understood. This photograph is such a moment. The dollhouse in the photograph is circa 1900s and measures three feet high by four feet wide. I used a variety of lenses, perspectives, lighting and digital techniques to create a sense that the rooms are real but at the same time disturbingly not real. I used lights ranging from strobes to pencil flashlights and had small mirrors made so I could photograph some of the room’s interior corners.

Eric L Hansen. Nashville, TN

Artist Statement

Art critic Heather Snider writing for Eyemazing: "The photographs in Eric L Hansen’s series Dollhouse reveal themselves slowly. At first encounter they are immediately engaging with their color palette and evocative use of light. A moody range of blue-green hues, muted ochres, and dimly rendered pastels create an environment that is cool, inviting, and mysterious... whether this place is a real house or a dollhouse is ultimately irrelevant... it is a distinct presence."

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