Dan Mccormack

The Nude at Home series evolved from the Pinhole camera series begun around 1998, done in the studio and in the landscape. In the studio I would ask the model to bring something of hers to the shoot. I wanted to find a way to capture a personal sense of the model. Then I realized that in the model's home everything was part of the life and story of the model. As early as 2003, I had done shoots in the model's home but it was not until about 2010 that I recognized how much more personal...
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The Nude at Home series evolved from the Pinhole camera series begun around 1998, done in the studio and in the landscape. In the studio I would ask the model to bring something of hers to the shoot. I wanted to find a way to capture a personal sense of the model. Then I realized that in the model's home everything was part of the life and story of the model. As early as 2003, I had done shoots in the model's home but it was not until about 2010 that I recognized how much more personal these images were. I then tried to set up most of my Pinhole camera shoots with the model in her home. The process of working in encaustic painting or on sculptures of hand-stitched paper soaked in wax allows me to explore my ongoing interest in the sense of touch and the way that it embeds itself in, and indelibly records, human involvement in an object's making.