The works on view, entitled Hardly More Than Ever, are comprised of color still life photographs. The series presents the viewer with an array of decaying food remnants, plastic containers, dirty dishes , Styrofoam cups and used glasses. The beautiful mess of leftover meals inspired by Dutch-Flemish and Italian still-life paintings of the seventeenth century is not a comment on the material-mindedness of society and consumption as its predecessors had been. Letinsky’s images are a “meditation on decay” exploring “the relationships between ripeness and decay, delicacy and awkwardness, control and haphazardness, waste and plenitude, pleasure and sustenance”.
