STUFF IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN

Bill Arnold’s work is still rather unknown, despite his impressive oeuvre. For many years his photographic style has been poeticly intimate. For Noorderlicht 1997 he specially selected a series from his work. These photographs show us simple, almost banal matters from daily life; an appartment building, a car, a bed, a rubbish bin in the street. There is a story attached to every photo. The only connection between the photographs in this series put together by Arnold is that they represent The Garden of Eden in his eyes. Arnold wants to point out that all these little things are around us, and in their triviality enrich our life and our seeing: “I believe that experiencing these little things is like being in The Garden of Eden.”