David Hall : Shoreline Reflections

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David Hall’s digital photos are taken while fly fishing the shores of Lake Ross. “Shoreline Reflections” focuses on the fleeting images he recognizes in the intricate shapes and patterns on the waters surface.  Hall is a well known Northwest architect and a resident of Edison Wa and  i.e. is pleased to present this, his 2nd exhibit with us. Hall describes his work:

"In "Shoreline Reflections”,  like my previous show at i.e., " Roots of the the Upper Skagit" , the images were taken with a handheld digital camera while slowly trolling streamer flies close to shore on Ross Lake. Photographs can often capture objects and movement that go unnoticed at the time of the shoot. I wasn’t particularly aware of these watery shapes and patterns until they became apparent in a few of my shoreline photos. For the next couple of years I focused on surface reflections while fishing, usually in the early fall, when the wave action was just right to create the patterns you see in this exhibit. I found that once my mind’s eye was trained to see these fleeting images, I became adept in recognizing the intricate shapes and patterns happening around me. Generally speaking, the colorful patterns are most apparent when seen on the water looking back to a steep shoreline that reflects flora and rock formations on a gently undulating surface. Many of the images are reminiscent of the two-dimensional formline and ovoid design patterns seen in the art of the upper Northwest Coast Indians. The First Nation Indians traveled by canoe between their winter and summer homes close to shorelines similar to Ross Lake, foraging food for the winter, in protected waters of the inland passages and fiords of what is now British Columbia and lower Alaska. Could imaginative and sensitive eyes trained over centuries, not just weeks, see forms in the constantly undulating, rhythmic movement of their watery world that would overtime lead to the formline and ovoid masterworks of Northwest Coast Art?”