On My Windowsill, part I

Since moving into my new apartment in New York City, I have been nothing short of infatuated with my windowsill. Be it the view the window itself provides, the incredible sunlight in my tiny space or how photogenic cracked paint can be, I have wanted to continuously take photos of my meals and favorite things on this sill. It all started with the evolution of the oatmeal breakfast, but it has made its way to lunches and even school-related themes.

On the windowsill, you can always find my emptied jar of Talenti ice cream filled with a third of my lipstick collection, a small green plant from IKEA, a fake white flower in a vase, a tiny plate (purchased at a thrift store) holding my everyday rings and a small collection of reading materials.

At the moment, I have no plans to change was lies permanently on the windowsill, but I am playing with the subjects of these photographs. The middle of the windowsill is often empty, since I am not one for clutter, and it remains this way until I need a place to set down my coffee, tea, meal or lit candle. This series began because I noticed how lovely my breakfast looked between my well-thought-out sill decorations.

The photographing of my breakfast began to inspire me immensely. After prop placement came the angles. Being such a small window and the subject not being so different in the beginning, I had to get creative. 

A friend suggested I take a photograph a day so that I could look back at my first year in NYC through the evolution of themes on my windowsill. This made me pretty excited to start saving the photos I've already taken and wondering what subject might inspire me next. For now, my first library book (checked out with my NYPL card) photographs quite well. Alexandre Dumas is one of my favorite authors and this novel based during Marie Antoinette's reign in France is making for a great prop next to my meals.

Since I just finished my first week of graduate school at NYU, I have already started photographing my textbooks and notes. This could quite possibly be the next series of photographs I post on this blog. Stay tuned, Xx.

P.S.: All photography was done with an iPhone 6S and no photographs have been edited.