I just finished enjoying your two page pictorial in this week's Real Detroit. As I picked up the magazine, I was bemoaning, in my mind, Real Detroit's tendency to play safe and use a publicity photo from a touring act or hot movie for its front cover. And your cover photo was so slick, I had assumed that's exactly what the editors had done again. I was happy to be wrong. Although I've been out of town for most of the year, I hadn't noticed good Detroit cover photography in Real Detroit since Bethany Shorb of Dethlab, www.dethlab.net, published her piece, with the women dressed in local fashions and deer antlers and the men outfitted with bows and arrows. I'm pleased that Real Detroit gave you the opportunity.
I did follow the credits out to your website, and I was most impressed with the intimacy embodied in your photography. But it's more than that. Your woman rising out of the lily pad pond in her wedding dress evokes an allusion to Ophelia from Shakespeare's Macbeth. Your woman rising from the river, standing on the merest twigs, raises allusions to the Lady of the Lake, from the Arthurian legend. Kindly let me know where you are exhibiting in the area by adding me to your studio email list.
As for wedding dress trashing, I read about the trend in the New York Times about a year ago, and it's good to know that it's a trend alive and well in Detroit, enjoying a Detroit style twist under your direction.
Sincerely
Wandering Wilbo
Wilbo's on the make for the Lady of the Lake.
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