San Francisco artist Sonia Melnikova appreciates the city’s foggy summers. Her special brand of photography does not call for sunshine and intricate shadows, nor is it interested in reflecting the three-dimensionality of objects in photoprint. Melnikova’s eye is trained on capturing barely visible or disappearing things—subtle reminders of time passing by on deserted beaches and in ghost towns—the remnants of our everyday, gradually descending into oblivion. The artist is referring to the Japanese wabi-sabi philosophy as her inspiration in seeking the transitional, the declining, the beautifully imperfect—her ultimate subject matter. She finds these momentary revelations in the “Fall Colors,” “Very Still Lives,” “Garage Sale,” “Zenscapes,” “Scrap Art,” and “Bottled Past” of her collection’s categories with her relentlessly precise artistic vision. Melnikova sees art in rusty parts of formerly functional mechanical systems, and in flotsam and jetsam along California coastline, and in her matted archival paper prints every speck of rust and every grain of sand comes to live, captures between here and eternity, between one tidal wave and the next. Sonia Melnikova’s Fine Art Photography can be viewed and is available for purchase at: http://art.soniamelnikova.com Private group tours of the artist’s studio can be requested through “Art and Entertain me” at: editor.krasov@gmail.com
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