Perry Hall, Windows, Sun, Books, 2004, pigment print

      Most of my work is about the city, the walls, windows, fire escapes, rooflines, water towers. I love how they constantly change with the light, dramatic in sun, subtle under cloud.

      This was a chance seeing of the drama of light in a window on West Broadway. The key opposites here are light and dark. One can’t understand or appreciate the one without the other; here the dark—infinite, almost ominous—dramatically sets off the luminous books in the light of the evening sun. Light illuminates books, which, in turn, illuminate us.

      What beauty my images may possess is largely due to Aesthetic Realism, and the effect those who teach based on it, have had on my seeing.

• Works on this site: Anuszkiewicz, Blaustein, Burckhardt, Di Cerbo, Hall, Henry, Hung, King, Kranjac, Koppelman, Longo, Michael, Rackow, Romano, Roth, Schmidt, Sloat, Stadnik

• Further Sources: Aesthetic Realism Online Library: TRO, Poetry, Reviews, Essays; Aesthetic Realism Consultations; Teaching Method K-12; Friends of Aesthetic Realism—Countering the Lies; Reviews/Critiques

• Discussions in the press & at the Terrain Gallery: Bernstein, Bruegel, da Vinci, Gee's Bend: Quilts, Guston, Homer, Indiana, Koppelman, Lange, Monet, Picasso: Dora Maar Seated, Picasso: Minotauromachy, Picasso: Guernica, Pollock, Pollock: Number One 1948, Potter, Rietveld, Sargent, Sloan, Terrain Gallery [1}, Terrain Gallery [2], Terrain Gallery [3], Velazquez, Vermeer