Design: Debbie Loftus. Exhibition book, 'Threshold'.

THRESHOLD

JEFFERY BECTON

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THRESHOLD

Images Jeffery Becton Text Andrea Hamilton Nico Kos Earle

Preface

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The North The Atlantic The haze-covered sky The light

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The universe pulls and pushes The rough and the smooth

Soft Chine, 2015

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Interiors

Weather marks the walls Water holds memory The house hides the sea

Ephemera, 2016

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The door opens to water Nothing opens the door The water takes everything away

Low Water, 2014

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The loneliness of empty shelves The distance to your doorway The faded peel of celadon green

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The Pilot House, 2014

The white walls protect me The whiteness will fade to blue

Grace, 2014

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Every doorway leads to another Every thought leads to that door Every step washes the possibility

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The Baths, 2015

Sea view Side table Sail boat

Pond Island Passage, 2011

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The evidence is in the image

Watermark, 2014

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The indifference of time The transparency of place

Blue Calm, 2014–2022

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The stillness The possibility The truth

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Stillness at Mistake, 2012

The weather is barnacled The walls are bruised The tide has claimed the room

Ides of March, 2017

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The childhood memories Stored in the attic

The Keeper's House, 2012

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The open door When water meets light

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Kitchen Door, 2011

A rain sodden memory dilutes The misty waters of the Atlantic

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On the Cusp, 2005

Everything is reflection Reflection is everything

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Blue Chest, 2013

Safe passage Open house Quiet light

Guest House, 2014

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The chairs are holding their places The china is ready to come out The room waits for a gathering

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Gathering, 2010

Drenched in time

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Pandora’s Chest, 2011

In the quiet paleness of winter The mirror stills the light

Winter Light, 2011

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Encircled by the horizon

Open Door, 2005

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The wide-open vista Space and time

Thanksgiving, 2017

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We dream to dwell In places we have never been

Stage Door, 2017

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The promise of inner fulfillment

Something Lost, 2016

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The sinking The thinking The flow

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Spring Tide, 2006

The light outside The ocean sound The drifting salt The boat

Dry Squall, 2016

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The wind the cloud the mist A world far beyond understanding

Water Table, 2006

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No-one is coming back The rocks are parched for water The fire is out

Hardscrabble, 2012

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Resting on the mantle Is an image I remember Of a face I did not know

House On A Far Shore, 2006

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The stairs look so inviting Light filters through the trees A child is laughing

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Don't Look Back, 2005

Whilst you were sleeping Underneath the stairs The tide went out

Steel Bed and Stairs, 2005

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Cold sunlight Distributes harmonies

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There and Then, 2011

Where does the wall begin?

And the picture end?

Is everything surface?

Ending Wall, 2012

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We dwell in places beyond Our immediate grasp

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Acceptance, 2011

Tides ebb and flow Sombre tones Timbres and amplitudes

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Painted Chair, 2011

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Abstract Spaces

The sense that time must be eternal

Inundation, 2016

Equinox, 2016

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The dryness that peels away the soul

Her Waterline, 2014

Scallop Season, 2014

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The place where sadness makes sense

Inundation with pink, 2017

Winter’s Room, 2018

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Exterior Spaces

The open space The subtle light

Looking South, 2019

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The solitude of distance The nothing of open space

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Looking West, 2011

The palpable sense of place

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Looking North, 2011

An undisturbed world

Old Glory, 2011

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Easter Sunday, 2011

In the garden of my sight

First of Spring, 2011

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Stonington, Southwest, 2007

The ephemeral

Pink Door, 2018

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The summer’s day

Eliot's Back Door, 2014

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Acknowledgements

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Artist and Writer

Jeffery Becton was born in Englewood, New Jersey. After studying history at Yale, he received a Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the Yale School of Art (now Yale School of Art and Architecture).

He has exhibited in group shows throughout New England and New York, and has been juried into 11 annual and biennial shows at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, and three Portland Museum of Art Biennials. In February 2022 Becton had a solo exhibition organised by the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts at the Glickman Family Library of the University of Southern Maine.

The artist’s work is included in numerous publications on digital photography and imaging, most notably the 2007 Nash Editions: Photography and the Art of Digital Printing.

Photographs by Becton are in five museum collections, including the Portland Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art. He regularly shows his work at the Turtle Gallery in Deer Isle, Elizabeth Moss Galleries in Falmouth, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Ellsworth, and VoxPhotographs in Portland.

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Artworks copyright © Jeffery Becton 2022 Text copyright © Andrea Hamilton © Nico Kos Earle 2022 Edited by Nico Kos Earle Designed by Debbie Loftus Printed by Pureprint Papers Cover: Materica Acqua 250gsm.

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