Hermon Joyner
Artist Statement
Last fall, I began picking up leaves. Dried into flowing shapes and earth-tone colors, they resembled delicate sculptures in my hand. I set them aside with no definite plans. Then the lock-down happened in March. I began to photograph them, accentuating their textures and shapes, treating them like the small-scale monuments they are. I found beauty in the end of their life cycle. No longer ordinary, they had become transfigured.
Artist Bio
Hermon Joyner has been an exhibiting photographer since the early 1980s. He is the primary author of Focus on Photography, a photography textbook published by Davis Publications. Joyner also produced the limited-edition artist’s book, Visual Haiku, which combines large format black-and-white photographs of Japanese gardens with his own Haiku poetry in a hand-bound book.
