18"x13.5" Black & White Photograph, 2023

$835

This black-and-white photograph of Mission Point Lighthouse in winter distills the scene to structure, light, and stillness. The historic building rises with quiet authority, its crisp geometry—gable, tower, and lantern—rendered in luminous whites against a softly clouded sky. Snow blankets the roof and ground in an unbroken field, amplifying contrast and simplifying the composition into planes of light and shadow.

In the foreground, a small grouping of Adirondack chairs sits partially buried in snow, their dark forms anchoring the lower frame. They introduce a human element without disrupting the solitude—an implied presence rather than an active one. The chairs face outward, suggesting a view beyond the frame, while their stillness echoes the season’s suspension of time.

The lighthouse itself becomes both subject and symbol: a place of guidance rendered quiet, its function implied rather than enacted. Subtle tonal gradations across the snow and siding reveal the photograph’s sensitivity to winter light, where brightness is tempered and edges are softened.

For collectors, the work offers a contemplative balance between history and atmosphere. It carries a sense of permanence held within seasonal silence—an image that invites sustained looking, where detail emerges slowly and the familiar landmark is re-experienced through reduction, restraint, and the poetics of monochrome.