Lilian Day Thorpe
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HALF-LIGHT

september 5 – october 15


On the other side of half-light is half-dark.

My new body of photomontages gives equal focus to what’s obscured as to what’s revealed. I’m drawn to the strange beauty that unfolds just before total darkness — when the familiar dissolves into the uncanny. Scenes we think we know are subtly altered; their details soften, their boundaries shift. A house becomes its own doppelgänger — recognizable, yet transformed. Rooflines give way to crisp triangles against sloping curves, while identifying features blur and recede.

In this in-between light, abstraction takes hold. The expected, memorized image of nature is interrupted, replaced by a fleeting chance to experience surprise and novelty. The half-light draws attention to structure over specificity — to the impression rather than the particular. This aligns with my ongoing desire to conjure mood, memory, and atmosphere — not to describe, but to evoke.

 
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after Hours

16 x 20 inches

 
 
 

Sirius in Half-Light

20 x 30 inches

 
 
 
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through the trees

24 x 16 inches

 
 
 

between darkness and day

16 x 22 inches

 
 
 

daybreak

16 x 24 inches

 
 
 
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the cool eve of everyday

12 x 18 inches

 
 
 

Work in Progress

24 x 30 inches

 
 
 

seawatch

8 x 12 inches

 
 
 
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silver morning

14 x 12 inches

 
 
[The Pictorialists] placed mood above matter, spirit above physical phenomena. They did not obscure reality, but they let down a veil over their subjects that obliterated the non-essentials, stressing ‘the artistic witchcraft of suggestion.’
— WARNER TAYLOR | Photographing Monhegan 1912–1958
 
 

moon through trees iI

27 x 40 inches

 

Work in Progress

20 x 15 inches

 

Work in Progress

10 x 10 inches