Georgia O'Keeffe 1918

This photograph of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz captures her looking directly at us, and then the painting behind her is like a ghost of a thought. Stieglitz must have been thinking about how to capture something essential about her. He was a master of light and shadow. The way the light falls on her face, there's such a sense of intimacy, isn’t there? You can almost feel his presence behind the camera, trying to capture something about this woman, her intensity, and the painting behind, a sign of their life together. It reminds me of when I’m painting. I am always thinking about the conversation that happens between the work and the viewer. How a single mark can change everything. Stieglitz, with his camera, was doing the same thing. Every click of the shutter, a question, an answer, a feeling. Photography and painting, they're all just ways of seeing, aren't they?