(detail of birdhouse from one of my storybook photographs)
Take away the birdhouse from this photograph, and it would be dreadfully boring.
Like the jar that Wallace Stevens places on a hill in Tennessee, or the sculpture that Maeve photographed, the birdhouse rules the picture.
The birdhouse is small, yet extremely powerful. Stevens' jar is similarly small. But once he places it on the hill, there is order. If there were no birdhouse in the picture, we would not know where to look. The birdhouse, like the jar, creates a focal point; once it is there, we know where to direct our eyes, and we have, to some extent, created order in the wilderness.
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