MOMENTS-MERGE: The latest collection of works, in diptychs and triptychs. Coming soon in 2025, currently in production.
Untitled, 2025 65” x 85”
Introducing MOMENTS-MERGE, sequenced photographs in poetic combinations, presented in a diptych or triptych - thus becoming part of a new storyline, with wide spaces for interpretation.
Every work of Moments-Merge is a one of a kind original - never to be duplicated - thus a rare unequaled piece for a collector.
Subject matter is vast and offbeat. Imagery was chosen from travels abroad, and more notably, scenes from road-tripping the Mojave Desert - my home in California.
The blurred-motion look that appears frequently is created live in the camera - during the moment. I purposefully shoot with the lens set in a soft focus, and often I, or the subjects, are in motion.
This style of shooting transforms the contents of the scene, into smoothed shapes with soft buttery colors, lending the feeling of a dream and the look of a painting - a perfect combination for storytelling.
When possible, I use extreme cropping ratios similar to widescreen formats seen on movie theater screens. By simplifying and narrowing each moment shown, helps the viewer clarify storylines quicker.
Certain works of Moments-Merge are within a themed series that share one repeated moment, a center symbol, hinting of deja vu or a recurring dream.
The first release of works will be in Fall 2025.
- Paul Hadley
Untitled, 2025 66”x 80”
Untitled, 2025 78” x 90”
Untitled, 2025 72” x 88”
Untitled, 2025 72” x 88”
Untitled, 2025 68” x 100”
Untitled, 2025 108” x 65”
Untitled, 2025 102 x 77”
Untitled, 2025 59” x 84”
Untitled, 2025 58” x 97”
Untitled, 2025 70” x 100”
Untitled, 2025 52” x 95”
Untitled, 2025 55” x 80”
Untitled, 2025 108”x 30”