"East Rock"
pigment-based inkjet print
Since 1992, James Welling has been working on the Light Sources series, an open-ended collection of various portraits, landscapes, and interiors. All of the works in the series indirectly relate to the process of perception, and while many of the objects literally transmit light, the series acknowledges that everything we see reflects light and is also a source of light.
Like much of Welling's work, Light Sources taps into memories and emotions in the viewer, about darkness, strange places, and the wonder of that which attracts us for reasons unknown. It is a trope for the seductions of the quickly glimpsed, the half remembered, the partially understood, qualities that Welling wants to hold up, examine, and admire without piercing the fragile surface of their own fugitive grace.
(Carol Squiers, Artforum, 1998)
S-0845, Front view
© James Welling
