MY PANDEMIC YEAR:  THE TREE OUT MY WINDOW

After January I never made it back to my studio. I left for major back surgery, barely in time to beat the first reports of COVID. I returned to my apartment in mid-Cambridge and settled in for an extended recovery.
Unable to pick up on last year’s artwork – which were the acrylic transfer collages that remained on the walls of my studio – my hands itched for something to do. Tearing up paper wasn’t it, at least not without getting wet with gel all over my apartment. Physically, baking was too soon. I started to write. A journal, first. More recently, the start of a novel – well, maybe.
But then, there was this tree out my living room window on the sixth floor. Suddenly calling. An elm, I wondered? Only partially visible behind the three-story homes across the street. When I looked at it furthest back from my kitchen table, its branches filled the window. It was huge. But when I got up close to the window itself, the surrounding buildings swallowed it up. Odd.
Curious. I picked up my camera, the tiny digital Canon 110 which I had used to take pictures of the collages in my studio. For those, however, I relied on the automatic setting to guide me. These, I would try manual. Teach myself. What started then in winter, before we really knew from COVID, spread through June. More than 650 shots later, I stopped. Then I edited down to a final twenty, which is what you see on my website today.

2020 PHOTOGRAPHS: THE TREE OUT MY WINDOW
Bobby Vilinsky 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS: THE TREE OUT MY WINDOW DIGITAL PHOTGRAPH
TREE OUT MY WINDOW, BEFORE DUSK IN EARLY SUMMER
2020
DIGITAL PHOTGRAPH
10"H X 18"W
Bobby Vilinsky 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS: THE TREE OUT MY WINDOW DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
TREE OUT MY WINDOW. DUSK - LONGEST DAY IN SUMMER
2020
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
10" H X 11" W
Bobby Vilinsky 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS: THE TREE OUT MY WINDOW DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
TREE OUT MY WINDOW, DUSK IN LATE SPRING
2020
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
9"H X 11" W
Bobby Vilinsky 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS: THE TREE OUT MY WINDOW DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
TREE OUT MY WINDOW, DUSK IN LATE SPRING
2020
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
13"H x 18" W
Bobby Vilinsky 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS: THE TREE OUT MY WINDOW DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
TREE OUT MY WINDOW, NIGHTFALL IN LATE SPRING
2020
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
15" H X 27" W
Bobby Vilinsky 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS: THE TREE OUT MY WINDOW DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
TREE OUT MY WINDOW, WINTER AFTERNOON
2020
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
10" H X 11" W
Bobby Vilinsky 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS: THE TREE OUT MY WINDOW DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
TREE OUT MY WINDOW, SPRING AFTERNOON, DETAIL
2020
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
8.5" H X 11" W
Bobby Vilinsky 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS: THE TREE OUT MY WINDOW DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
TREE OUT MY WINDOW, SPRING AFTERNOON
2020
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
42" H X 56" W
Bobby Vilinsky 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS: THE TREE OUT MY WINDOW DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
TREE OUT MY WINDOW, DUSK IN SPRING
2020
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
6" H X 11" W
Bobby Vilinsky 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS: THE TREE OUT MY WINDOW DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
TREE OUT MY WINDOW, EARLY SUMMER BEFORE DUSK
2020
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
37' H X 42 " W
Bobby Vilinsky 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS: THE TREE OUT MY WINDOW DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
TREE OUT MY WINDOW, EARLY SUMMER SUNSET
2020
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
5" H X 9" W
Bobby Vilinsky 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS: THE TREE OUT MY WINDOW DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
TREE OUT MY WINDOW, SPRING STILL
2020
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
8" H x 9" W
Bobby Vilinsky 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS: THE TREE OUT MY WINDOW DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
TREE OUT MY WINDOW, SPRING - DUSK
2020
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
15" H X 18" W
Bobby Vilinsky 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS: THE TREE OUT MY WINDOW DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
TREE OUT MY WINDOW. LATE SPRING SUNSET
2020
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
13" H X 18" W
Bobby Vilinsky 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS: THE TREE OUT MY WINDOW DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
TREE OUT MY WINDOW, LATE SPRING SUNSET
2020
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
8" H X 11" W
Bobby Vilinsky 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS: THE TREE OUT MY WINDOW DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
TREE OUT MY WINDOW, SPRING AFTERNOON
2020
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
10" H X 18" W
Bobby Vilinsky 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS: THE TREE OUT MY WINDOW DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
TREE OUT MY WINDOW, LATE SPRING NIGHTFALL
2020
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
6" H X 11" W
Bobby Vilinsky 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS: THE TREE OUT MY WINDOW DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
TREE OUT MY WINDOW, SPRING SUNSET - LEFT
2020
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
15" H X 18" W
Bobby Vilinsky 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS: THE TREE OUT MY WINDOW DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
TREE OUT MY WINDOW, SPRING SUNSET - RIGHT
2020
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
17" H X 18" W
Bobby Vilinsky 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS: THE TREE OUT MY WINDOW DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
TREE OUT MY WINDOW, SPRING BEFORE SUNSET
2020
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH
56" H X 3!" W