The painting Spring to Fall – which measures nearly 50 meters in length – evolved over the four seasons, outdoors in New York’s Hudson Valley. The artist, Sam Falls, spread the canvas across a field, laying local and native plants from the early autumn and late summer on top. He then cast water-reactive pigments over the plants which were catalyzed naturally by the weather, leaving the flora’s silhouettes visible. The process was then repeated with the blossoming plants of spring and early summer. The final image constitutes a searing, intellectual consideration of the earth’s clock as well as the priceless importance of nature.
Sam Falls (born 1984 in San Diego) has developed a formal language by intertwining photography’s core parameters of time and exposure with the elements of nature. Working outdoors with vernacular materials and nature as a site-specific subject, he abandons mechanical reproduction in favor of a symbiotic relationship between subject and object. Falls lives and works in New York City and Hudson Valley, New York.