Snow Drift by Loren Nelson
- Title: Snow Drift
- Artist: Loren Nelson
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Size: 16"h x 20"w
- Creation date: 1995
- Added to collection: 2014
- Donor: Purchased by Portland Community College, Rock Creek Campus
- Campus: Rock Creek
- Location: B7/2 Hallway gallery
Loren Nelson's ability to create tonal ranges within dark areas as well as light ones is testament to his skills not only as a photographer but as a printer of his own photographs. Here the three planes of space-- foreground snowbank in luminous and sensuous undulations, followed by middle ground line of spiky weed stalks under an ominously bruised sky creates a vivid sense of place, animated by its own contradictory textures and energies.