Rodney Bursiel's Tributaries No. 1

A large-scale work of considered visual depth, Tributaries No. 1 arrives from John Richard as a photographic composition on paper, housed beneath glass in a wood frame finished in champagne — a surround that lends the piece its quiet luminosity. At nearly forty inches tall and over four and a half feet wide, the work commands a wall with the authority of architecture, its horizontal breadth inviting the eye to travel across the composition as one might read a landscape. The champagne finish bridges the pictorial and the decorative, allowing Tributaries No. 1 to anchor a room while remaining in graceful conversation with its surroundings.