We recently said goodbye to a true titan of contemporary realism, Janet Fish . For those of us obsessed with the interplay of light and glass, her passing is deeply felt. Fish didn't just paint "still lifes"; she painted the energy of light. She famously rejected the idea of "dead" objects, choosing instead to capture the way sunlight dances through a half-full juice glass or vibrates across the surface of a plastic wrap. "Smucker's Jelly" (1973) Why She Inspires me @ Spina.P

In 2026, we’re drowning in AI images. I want to make work that makes you stop and breathe for a second. For a long time, Spina.photos has lived behind glass. My work has existed in the glow of pixels, the flicker of a screen. It was a digital archive—a collection of moments suspended in the ether. Welcome to the new era of Spina.photos . Follow along as I move these from the screen to the wall. Photography was never meant to be trapped in a device.  We have become experts at