Bodhrán
"“Bodhrán" is a 16" x 20" limited edition photograph, signed by artist, printed on Archival Moab Entrada Rag paper, nested inside a custom black wooden float-frame, wired and ready to hang. This is a photograph of an Irish bodhran nestled among an enchanted forest in western Ireland. Additional framing options available.
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“Bodhrán . . .”
“All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.”
~Samuel Becket
Simply picking up the drum and walking out the back door into the woods was how this photograph was taken in Ireland. I didn't know what I was going to do with the broken bodhrán, but as I sat among the trees, observable differences in the light, shadow and texture of the morning slowly revealed themselves.
A friend reminded me that activity is only really in service of that period of reflection at the end. There is silence built-in at the end of any sound, a reminder that perhaps we need to build and hold space for silence. Especially in these noisy times . . .
Abandoned spaces and conceptual figurative photography serve as the focus of Boston-based David Lee Black’s most recent series of photographs. Black has curated and juried several exhibitions and is a recipient of the Tullaloughan Fellowship in western Ireland. Artscope, Boston Voyager, Boston Herald and The Providence Journal are just a few publications that have featured his widely shown work. Black is represented by Galatea Fine Art Gallery in Boston, MA.