The Stove

My current series, “What Remains", documents rural areas, including a once-thriving coal mining community near where I live on the Cumberland Plateau in Middle Tennessee. This series reflects the absence of economic development as well as a strong desire to persevere. I find great positives regarding relationships with people like Cotton Abston, a man with an indomitable will. Title: The Stove This is Cotton's stove with a metal plate welded on top to set the various cans of soup or beans. Cotton will set cans like these on that hot stove all the time. No hole punch, nothing, just straight up sealed cans of food. Some kind of rural Roulette, when those cans swell up hot. Materials: I present my photographs using an acid free heavyweight cotton-poly blend paper, elegantly textured featuring a semi-gloss satin surface. All my work is printed and presented by me using the best archival materials in my studio. Each piece is signed and numbered. I source materials from a local sawmill to personally handcraft a wood frame around the gallery wrapped canvas and finish with a dark walnut stain and wax.