ArtistLinda Hesh
Crème Peel
Date2014
MediumArchival inkjet print
Dimensions15 × 63 1/2 in. (38.1 × 161.3 cm)
Image Size: 11 3/4 × 59 3/4 in. (29.8 × 151.8 cm)
Framed Size: 21 × 68 1/2 in. (53.3 × 174 cm)
Credit LineDC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Collection
Object numberDCCAH2015.021.1
ClassificationsPhotographs
Locations
- Public Service Commission (1325 G Street NW, 800)
DescriptionThis was shot at the building formerly known as the Franklin School at 13th and K in Washington, DC. It had been sitting unused for a few years when photographers were invited to shoot the interior before it was renovated. Standing in one position, Hesh rotated the camera, shooting single images high and low, side to side. She combined thirty or more separate photographs into one image. In this series, sometimes the edges of individual shots are blended together and other pieces have jagged outside boundaries. The surrounding blank white space becomes part of the composition. Hesh enjoys the challenge of combining so many photographs from one scene to convey my experience of the location and create a new reality. Perspective is disrupted, reality distorted, space extended or compressed, confounding expectations and drawing you into the image.
