Mary Ellen Bartley is an American artist well known for her photographs that explore the tactile and formal qualities of the printed book and its potential for abstraction. Her work has been widely exhibited across the world for example at the yancey Richardson Gallery in New York and The Drawing Room and Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, New York. Bartley’s work has also been featured in several exhibitions exploring themes of the book and objects caught in transition from the analog to the digital realm.
During the period of lockdown due to COVID Mary decided to make a project where she took a picture of the same objects every day for a month. These objects consist of a book, sponge, mug, milk bottle, a glass cube and a small dish, everyday she manage to take a different picture with a different meaning, for example she would change the lighting and the order of the objects with only using natural light t6he whole time. She did this project to help show the beauty in everyday objects that would usually be ignored or abandoned.
These are the pictures i created inspired by her
