Summer Fades

Photographs by Evan Hartzell

Curated by Jona Frank

Evan Hartzell : Summer Fades

‘When summer’s breath their masked buds discloses:
But, for their virtue only is their show,
They live unwoo’d and unrespected fade,
Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so;
Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made:
And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,
When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth.

-Shakepeare. Sonnet 54.

Evan Hartzell is playing tricks on us.

Just as fall approaches he brings us back to the sights and smells of summer.

As in a Shakespearian poem, his photographs yield sweet perfumes and reassure us that beauty is preserved.

As Summer Fades, his photographs suggest we hold on just a little bit longer.

-Jona Frank