Fall-Cloud

by Lisa Nebenzahl

Fall/Cloud is one of four prints in Lisa Nebenzahl’s Looking Through series. In this body of work, she pairs photographs of the water and the sky, allowing us to observe both at the same time. A number of art works in Many Waters address the relationship between water and sky, including those by Morgan Clifford (to your left) and Karen Goulet (to your right). Nebenzahl took these photos in her backyard and at the Baptism River in northern Minnesota. The series plays with the idea of distance. She photographed water at a distance close enough to touch but at a location far away from her home, and paired these images alongside those capturing the distant sky taken from the artist’s home. This balance of near and far is echoed in the similarities between the images, each includes a sense of movement from the upper left corner to the lower right.