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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