Tent Camera: Tree Trunk in the Bowdoin Pines, 2022 Toys Bibiana Obler is associate professor

Bibiana Obler is associate professor of art history at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design

never believing until too late that a civil war would ever truly come to pass

with the firing on Fort Sumter

contrast handles and bottom

especially Matthew Lewis's The Monk and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Tent Camera: Tree Trunk in the Bowdoin Pines, 2022 Toys Bibiana Obler is associate professorI made this image using a device I invented called a Tent Camera. With this light proof tent I can manage to project nearby scenes via a periscope onto the ground underneath inside the tent. My picture of the tree trunk projected on the pine needle earth makes for an interesting patina that is photographic but yet suggests a painterly surface. I like the way my picture has the feel of paintings made by French artists in the Barbizon School in the 19th