I don’t think I’ve ever met someone that asks me more questions about a variety of topics as much as Ashley does. That’s not a shot at her but I won’t fault you if you thought it was. We’re somehow thought to think asking questions, almost of any magnitude is somehow stupid or worth looking down on, but for every question she’s ever asked me, regardless of if I was able to answer it or just steer here, is a point of reference. And you know what enough points of reference when linked together do? They make a picture, they form an image, and image that often times acts as a foundation to combating some type or source of anxiety. None of us will ever have all the answers, but we can go in search of them, and we may not find out what everything is, but we will start to define a baseline for what isn’t. Now, this wild color grade I came up with. The afternoon we took these the sun was almost entirely obscured by the clouds and the windows in her apartment weren’t close enough to the living room and with the choice of using the standing lamps or shorting in near darkness I opted for the former. I sat on these for 3 months, yes that’s a long time but Ashley and I have a pretty solid foundational knowledge of each other and she trusts me. So after 10 weeks or so just trying to wrap my mind around how to navigate them, I tossed out every approach I had tried and these are to date some of my best color renditions. I like grain in my work, blink at my work and you’ll see it, but I pushed the “destructive” editing a bit farther with these and began to add color noise as well which shifts pixels from their default hue to a neighboring color.

— Field Notes