Milk Glass

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This image was shot with a large pinhole camera designed by Nettles. She felt the imagery it produced appeared as a child might see the world. Nettles literally made all of the images in this series close to home, in the backyard or in her basement studio whenever she could steal time away from her young children. "With a three-year-old daughter and an infant son, I found myself living amidst mounds of toys, clothes and clutter. Included in the general mess were some special things that evoked fantasies of interstellar voyages, objects springing to life while grown-ups slept, nightmares creeping through the open windows. I wanted to document these items from a child's perspective...." Milk Glass foreshadows the now-commonplace practice of composing images digitally, complete with the layering and transparency now easily achieved with the aid of computers. The surface quality of these prints, however is distinctly undigital, for each print is unique and reflects the artist’s soft, painterly approach.

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