Abelardo Morell, Tent/Camera Image: Clouds and Trees on Grass in Hampstead Heath, London, England, 2017, archival pigment print. Courtesy of the artist and Edwynn Houk Gallery

“In June 2017 I traveled to England with my Tent/Camera in search of landscapes where John Constable painted. My Tent/Camera images are rendered on the ground, resulting in a photograph that suggests the painterly effect of his own canvases. I love the way his paintings have a kind of “ground” quality to them, a roughness; that roughness was interesting to me. A lot of his work is so much about scraggly kind of ground, and then the clouds.

These photographs are an attempt to make contemporary images with Constable in mind. I strived to look at the English landscape in his spirit. Constable stayed very attached to the countryside where he grew up. I made these images in the Flatford area of East Anglia, where he spent his boyhood, and in Hampstead Heath north of London, where he lived as an adult.” —Abelardo Morell

Creation of the After Constable work was generously supported by Michael Wilson.