Lumière Horizon

This body of work explores the relationship between human beings and the rest of the natural world. Lumière in French means ‘light’, but also ‘knowledge’. Evidence suggests that Rowe intends us to consider both meanings. The photographs in this series present somewhat formal portraits of architecture, houses and other buildings, as one would see them at the street view. Rowe chooses “ordinary” places, such as a simple beach house, a front yard or entrance of a home, a park facility in an empty desert. However, in their banality, when contemplated, one discovers relationships of planes, textures, lines, colors, spaces, that harmonize and contrast with each other in dynamic ways. In other words, hidden before our eyes there is an experience perceived when we reach a ‘horizon’ of visual recognition, of the structure of visual beauty revealed through one’s own attentive gaze.

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