“May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secret of living.” — E.E. Cummings
The still-life photographs of Paulette Tavormina are anything but still; on the contrary, they are full of life. Recalling sumptuous details of seventeenth-century Old Master painters such as Francisco de Zurbarán, Adriaen Coorte, Juan Sánchez Cotán, and Giovanna Garzoni, Tavormina’s painterly compositions serve as intensely personal interpretations of timeless, universal stories and themes of of life and love, of joy and sorrow.
“A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.” — Brigitte Bardot