ムードを選ぶだけで、空間がそれに応えます。光は冷たさや温もりを帯び、空気の流れが変わり、その感情を宿した作品だけが暗闇の中から浮かび上がります。それ以外のすべては、影の中へと退いていくのです。
A Life Carved from Steel and Light Born into the shadow of industry, William Henry Singer was destined for a life of commerce, yet his spirit sought the quietude of the canvas. As the son of a steel baron who famously sold the Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Co. to Andrew Carnegie, his path was seemingly paved with the heavy, metallic certainties of American business. His father, however, held a different vision for his son, insisting that if
he chose the life of an artist, he must earn his own way. This tension between the industrial wealth of his lineage and the uncertain life of a painter shaped his early years, driving him away from the steel mills and toward the rugged coastlines of Monhegan, Maine. There, amidst an artist colony, he began to find his own voice, trading the soot of Pittsburgh for the salt spray of the Atlantic. The pull of Europe eventually drew him a…