22’x15" Black & White Photograph, 2025

$835

Tangled is a black & white photograph that features the interior of an abandoned porch, where structure and overgrowth meet in a dense, intertwined field. Grape vines dominate the foreground, their looping tendrils and brittle stems crossing the frame in layered diagonals. Small clusters of desiccated fruit cling to the branches, punctuating the tangle with quiet, tactile detail.

Behind this organic lattice, the architecture of the porch recedes; window frames, floorboards, and railings softened by shallow depth and filtered light. The geometry remains legible but subdued, as if the built space is gradually yielding to the encroaching growth. Light enters from the left, diffused and pale, catching edges of vine and wood, creating a subtle interplay of highlight and shadow that guides the eye through the complexity.

The monochrome palette heightens the photograph’s emphasis on form and texture: the roughness of aged wood, the sinewy lines of the vines, the fragile remnants of leaves and fruit. Without color, the scene becomes less descriptive and more atmospheric, allowing the viewer to experience the tension between containment and release.

For collectors, the work offers a compelling meditation on time and reclamation. The porch, once a threshold between interior and exterior life, is now fully inhabited by the natural world. The image holds that moment of transition; where order loosens, boundaries dissolve, and the passage of time becomes visible through the quiet persistence of growth.