In pursuit of textural effects, he has experimented with polymer glues to bind his colors, sand or gravel sprinkled on to give them tactility and visual variety.
That attitude goes a long way toward keeping kids happy in the kitchen, says cookbook author Kathy Gunst, who believes that the very tactility of food invites play.
It is not an imitation of Czanne but a photographer's equivalent of those absorbed perceptions of tactility and gravity that Czanne brought to the study of everything from .