Andrea Zinn

In March of 2020, as New York City went into lockdown, like many others I became an “artist-in-residence” in my own home. An upstairs room became the center of my photography as I began to work on a new series of still life photographs. The windows of my studio face the front of the house and get sunlight from early afternoon until sunset. I was drawn to the quality of the light which led to my decision to only shoot in natural light. The objects I choose explore the qualities of light and the ephemeral nature of living things and their passage from freshness to fading, remnants and regeneration. My images often include found objects, shells, bones, dried flowers, ephemera and pieces with a family history.The Still Life project has become a meditation on the nature of cycles. The daily and seasonal cycle of the sun and the seasonal changes in the light as the trees in front of my windows bud and leaf and change color have become an integral part of each set of photographs. The objects I choose explore the qualities of light, shadow, transparency, reflections and the ephemeral nature of living things and their passage from freshness to fading, remnants and regeneration.