“They gave us 60 days’ eviction notice,” says Kailee McMurran, a graphic artist whose company Design by Goats, cofounded with partner Duke Stebbins, operated out of Towne Storage. “Before we found a new space,” she says, “we went to four or five different places, which were more expensive than our Towne studio and smaller. We were getting to the point of asking, ‘Should we stay in Portland? It’s not looking like this is going to be the greatest place to have a studio.’”
“It was a shock,” says David Abel, a writer who owns Passages Bookshop, which specializes in fine and rare books and early editions. Abel had just settled Passages on Towne Storage’s fifth floor less than a year before, sharing a space with Division Leap, another niche bookstore. The eviction notice plunged him back into the hunt for a home.
Shayla is a poet and author, and I had the pleasure of photographing her for a fine art project of mine, Poet Photo Project (See project here).
My first thought when I walked in to her space was, “What a solid collection of patterns, color and space. I love this!”
Shayla was lovely to photograph in her home with purple walls, paintings and her neon yellow aerial yoga hammock. The available light came from floor to ceiling windows facing my favorite direction, south, which allowed for diffused layers of light to pour in for these shots.
Session Details
Location: Residential
Time of Day: Afternoon
Assistant: No
Light Source: Available Light
Art Direction and Photography by Erica J Mitchell.
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