IrwinFoto

A gallery of photos by Mike Irwin

Category: Still Life

  • After Class | Twisp, WA | 2012 Signs of life linger after everyone’s left. A whiff of perfume, a wet ring from a cold glass, the angle of a chair hurriedly abandoned. Sometimes the room retains a palpable impression — a vibrant personality or strident attitude not quite ready to depart.

  • Leaf | East Wenatchee, WA | 2009 The simple complexity of nature can hold my attention for hours. Waves of wind-blown wheat, circles of lichen on boulders, the spread of veins in a leaf — all different, all somehow connected, all evidence of a grand design I can’t quite grasp.

  • Bright Water | East Wenatchee, WA | 2008 Our south-facing kitchen glows some days with winter sun. Plates in the dish rack bounce light to the ceiling. The cutting board warms as it deepens in color. And the faucet stream seems alive with internal light — photons from a roiling star at play in my…