Still Life - Liz Titone
Stripey Tulips
Still Life
Liz Titone
Still Life is an ongoing meditation on observation as a form of knowing. Walking is how I keep time with the world. I collect what I find at the edges of my sight, frequently led there by my dog's inquisitive snout. Seedpods, bark, flowers, and nests in various states of decay and transformation make their way back with me, where the exploration continues on an old flatbed scanner.
My scanner is both a tool and a collaborator. Its decrepitude adds layers of unpredictability and whimsy, and its shallow depth of field demands patience and deliberateness. Each composition becomes a quiet inquiry into form, texture, and light. What the scanner records is not just the object but my negotiation with it: the reversals, adjustments, and inevitable imperfections that come from working with materials that carry traces of their origins.
To linger with a blossom mid-decay or a seedpod cracked open is to encounter earth time compressed into a single surface. These small organic bodies have their own chronology, seasons of growth, dispersal, and return, that precedes and exceeds my attention to them. The scanner glass becomes a place of rest, and in the stillness of contact between object and light, something of that longer time becomes visible.
Tulip Tree In My Way
Hydrangea Dust
Becket Lilies
Becket Burst
Stephen’s Amaryllis
Marina
Unstung x 2
Becket Poof
Milkweed
Hydrangea Tunnel
Moss Extension
Nest
Punk Pod
Summer Look
Liz Titone is an artist whose work emerges from slow looking and patient inquiry. Trained in photography and book arts, she moves through the world with curiosity and precision, drawn to the tactile and the ephemeral—paper fibers, plant structures, the way light grazes a surface. Her images linger in the spaces where the mechanical eye of the camera meets the intimacy of close study, revealing the quiet choreography of natural forms. As both artist and educator, her practice is a continuous dialogue between observation and creation, with teaching fueling her artistic process and vice versa. She lives and works in Kingston, NY.
@liztitonestudio
