When Bartley’s residency at Casa Morandi was cut short by the pandemic, she returned to her Sag Harbor studio and began to explore ways to expand the project while travel restrictions prevented her from returning to Italy. Bartley embarked on a series of interventions in which the original photographs were manipulated with collage elements that subtly confound and disarrange the visual field and speak to the sense of isolation that the pandemic engendered. Bartley modifies the photographic imagery with modest means – a cut piece of paper, vellum, or the aged glassine typical of the papers that cover many volumes in Morandi’s library. The strategic placement of these simple elements alters spatial depth and introduces an extra layer of time and experience to each photograph. View the works in our current exhibition Morandi’s Books, on view through December 23. Shown here: (1) Iliad (from the series Morandi’s Books), 2022, (2) installation view of Morandi’s Books, (3) installation view of Morandi’s Books. — @maryellen_bartley #MaryEllenBartley #MorandisBooks #YanceyRichardsonGallery