Atelier Daguerre is the commercial undertaking of two formally-trained artists who are also involved with ongoing fine art projects. Richard Thompson's map designs can be seen in Wine Spectator Magazine as well as at his portfolio site. His oils and drawings can be seen by the small birds who fly by his studio window.
A sampling of Abigail Hamilton's haiku and photography pieces are shown here on this site.
"Abigail Hamilton has photographed a number of weather-beaten or just beaten businesses in the outskirts of Seattle—evoking a post-apocalypse of the American dream. Not satisfied, she has colonized this bleak landscape with characters that speak in the terse idiom of haiku, which record the recommendations, observations, admonitions, instructions, recollections, and oracular prognostications of the lost yet knowledgeable souls whom she imagines holding forth wisely, humorously, and tragically amidst the ruins. As others have done, Hamilton milks colloquialism and trash-culture for laughs, but the sharp, deceptively casual satire cannot conceal a humane meditation on the gap between illusion and reality, incidentally set in the rust belt of the Pacific Northwest." — Oliver Sacramento, October 04, 2004
These haiku use a visual photograph as the title, or are they photographs which are unpeopled until the haiku completes them? Museum-framed prints with the haiku rubber stamped and the signature embossed are $250 plus $20 shipping. Enjoy.
