Phil Renato

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Ocean Swell Photography

Pfeil

Chris Pfeil The camera is the way Chris Pfeil communicates “everything he sees”. His personal landscape is determined by his moments of life, new landscapes, landscapes he has revisited, and landscapes he hopes to capture. He devotes time behind the lens primarily due to his own self driven curiosity. Chris finds peace in the patterns of nature and recognizes the subtle and artful changes within a natural landscape. He is happy to be witness to something much bigger than himself.

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La Maelstrom 2019 Resin, Metal, 3D Print

Phil

Renato

Phillip Renato My brother and I would race to a small peninsula across the bay, at the mouth of the canal, and escape into what seemed to us a vast wilderness. I was the stronger swimmer, but I was the older brother. The tiny perturbations of the surface, our small wake, seemed somehow amplified whenever we exited the water for the house. The lake was a little deep, but it felt knowable - like something we could control. The house, its people, were chaos. Wet with liquor, the house walled in a maelstrom. We used less light back then, just flickers of living room lights escaping from bay windows across the lake at dusk.