Morning in the Living Room, Ottawa

Leslie Hossack

$750

Pigment ink on cotton paper
15 x 20 in. / 38 x 51 cm
Unframed
Edition of 3
2021

"My intention is to fashion images that reveal what I believe the architects originally designed. I feel compelled to take historic buildings back to a specific moment in time - to set the stage for the protagonist to enter. In post-production, I remove people as well as the chaos and clutter of contemporary life. My process is subtractive. I compose the scene within the frame of the camera; I remove unwanted elements in post-production; and finally, I may crop the image. Hammershøi was very aware of the photographic process. As a painter, he would start by composing the scene within the frame of his canvas, and then he would paint in the elements that he wanted to appear in the work. His process was additive. He did not need to remove people and clutter after the fact. However, he often cropped the finished piece by wrapping part of the painted canvas around the back of the frame, hiding elements he wished to eliminate.

- L. Hossack

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