Seasons Project- Part 1 in Progress- Winter

My favorite place at MOMA is located up the first set of stairs and straight through to the back of the floor in front of Cy Twombly's Four Seasons paintings. For those of you not familiar with the paintings, here they are below.

I love the way that the colors of each season are separated into such clear and separate sections. This project is a work in progress for me and I imagine that I will work on it for the next few years. For now, the groupings are based on color and the season in which the photographs were taken. I am starting to move out of these confines slightly and would like to start the groupings based more on the subject matter. I am doing a lot of color work in Photoshop after scanning the negatives to create the feel of different seasons. For the winter series, I am making the colors really desaturated and pale. Looking out the window of my studio in Brooklyn this morning, the skyline is pale and foggy. It makes for perfect reference. I'm really enjoying playing with color so much.

When I show this work as a whole, they will be printed small (8x10") and arranged in a grid for each season. I like the idea that from far back the colors will form similar palettes to the Twombly paintings. I have been so inspired by these paintings. Of course the other set of the Four Seasons at the Tate Modern are also a huge inspiration. Here are some of the photographs from the winter group.

after the snow, new london, new hampshire

hotel bed on christmas morning, cambridge, massachusetts

temporary grave marker, auckland, new zealand

fog on the island, the coromandel, new zealand