PHOTOGRAPHS

On the Margin, 2008 - 2011

FIRST LIGHT / LAST LIGHT, ongoing

After Candide, 2010

The Waterpod Project, 2009

Nomadographies, 2007-2009

The Anatomy of Melancholy, ongoing

Island, 2009 - 2010

Archipelago, 2008 - 2010

Time Has Falllen Asleep, 2007

Garden, 2008-2009

Fore Cast, 2006

Second Nature 2004-2008

THE STAGE, 2002-2003

Interactive Architecture, 2001-2002

Valpariso, 2000

 

 

Mattingly First Light Last Light 2002 Mattingly First Light Last Light Mattingly First Light Last Light
2004 2005 2006 Mary Mattingly
2007 Mattingly First Light Last Light Mattingly First Light Last Light Mattingly First Light Last Light
     

Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me. - Walt Whitman

The sublime is something that "fills the mind with an agreeable kind of horror” -Joseph Addison

The cross photographs are taken during the first and the last light of the day, on the Winter Solstice. I began taking these photographs to attempt to capture my experience with sublimity, while living alone in the desert of the American Northwest in the year 2001.