Terrain de Cricket — Match Test, 2001

A scanned photograph placed on a warm aged-wood surface, the photo filling nearly the entire frame with only a thin natural border visible on all sides. The photograph depicts: Grungy analog flash photo, Fuji QuickSnap disposable, circa 2001. Two friends — a young person with short dark hair and warm brown skin turned toward the camera half-standing holding a paper plate of fish and chips, and a broad-shouldered South Asian man with a neat side part and a warm smile wearing a white cricket sweater vest over a collared shirt, mid-clap reacting to something on the field — sitting on plastic fold-down seats in the members' stand of a test cricket ground. White picket fence visible in front, the lush green oval stretching behind. Both wearing white or cream linen, one with a Panama hat, the other with zinc sunscreen on the nose. The ground behind: a sight screen at the far end, a Victorian-era pavilion with a clock tower, fielders in white scattered on the grass, the pitch strip a worn pale rectangle. Hazy English summer overcast sky — bright but diffused. Other spectators: someone reading a newspaper, someone asleep with hat over face, a thermos and cake tin between seats. Natural daylight, the Fuji film pushing greens vivid and skin tones slightly cool. Soft grain, slightly washed-out quality. Natural skin texture with subtle pores and micro-imperfections, organic asymmetry in features. --ar 4:5