Lyons Hill Road Possibly 2008 - 2013

This photograph, Lyons Hill Road, by Justin Kimball, seems to capture an interior that time forgot. The muted palette leans into grays and browns, evoking a sense of decay. Looking at the peeling wallpaper, the dust motes caught in the light, it’s all about texture here. Kimball's photographic process seems to honor the textures of the real. I'm drawn to the doorway, those parallel wooden slats, they hint at a life once vibrant. Is it a screen? Or something else? The eye can't help but see how this doorway opens to a space beyond that we can imagine. The work reminds me a bit of Gregory Crewdson. Both invite us into worlds that are both familiar and deeply strange. It's this ambiguity that makes art so compelling—a constant conversation across time, where meanings shift and settle.