中文简介：

就像17世纪的荷兰画家将原本普通的室内场景变得充满意义一样，美国摄影师Jessica Todd Harper在日常时刻寻找价值。她意象中的人物是她身边的人——她的朋友、她自己、家人——但重要的不是他们，而是他们被组织和照亮的方式。一个女人帮助她的孩子练习钢琴并不是一个特别神圣的时刻，但就像在维米尔的画作中一样，构图和灯光影响内容的方式可能会让这看起来是一个神圣的时刻。

大多数时候，日常场景对我们来说没有任何意义。事实上，我们试图摆脱这些无聊的日常。因此我们不停滚动手机屏幕，而不是与我们的思想、我们的自我、甚至我们的家人独处。这组照片利用了我眼前的东西，这里的东西，一个我们很多人都来思考的地方，特别是在大流行疫情期间。美、善和真可以在日常生活中展现自己，就像康德的“崇高”概念，或者仅仅是在荷兰的日常家庭场景绘画中一样，它们被某种意义照亮了。我们未经审视甚至是乏味的环境有时也能给人以启迪。

英文简介：

Like seventeenth century Dutch painters who made otherwise ordinary interior scenes appear charged with meaning, Jessica Todd Harper looks for the worth in everyday moments. The characters in her imagery are the people around her- her friends, herself, family- but it is not so much they who are important as the way in which they are organized and lit. A woman helping her child practice the piano is not a particularly sacred moment but as in a Vermeer painting, the way the composition and lighting influence the content suggests that perhaps it is.

Most of the time everyday scenes don't mean anything to us- in fact, it is a modern truism that we seek to be distracted from them. We scroll through our phones rather than be alone with our thoughts, our selves or even our families. This collection of photographs makes use of what is right in front of me, what is here, a place that many of us came to contemplate especially during the pandemic. Beauty, goodness and truth can reveal themselves in daily life, much like in Kant's notion of the Sublime or simply in the Dutch paintings of everyday domestic scenes that are somehow lit up with purport. Our unexamined or even boring surroundings can sometimes be illuminating.