Amanda Williams: On the Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum

Still Life Nick Croggon The photographs of Amanda Williams contain a certain type of stillness. It is not the stillness of a statue, which suggests a condition of monumental and permanent fixedness. It is instead a stillness limned by movement, of action briefly arrested and about to recommence. Williams’ still images bristle with the activity of the natural world that they depict, like the stillness of a pond beneath whose surface a plethora of life forms dart and interact. To experience Williams’ work is to experience a moment of quiet that makes this activity suddenly perceptible. Williams’ work gives new...