Apple Tree, Susanville, CA is the title of one of  the unframed photographs in the 2011 Not Home exhibit featuring photography of David Baddley: photographer-in-residence and faculty member, Westminster College.  Entangled in the mid-level branches of a fruit-filled green apple tree and about 12 feet above ground, is an eight foot by two foot industrial light cannister pointed at the ground with four fluorescent tubes still in their slots. Baddley’s unique lens captures the profound on the other side of the quotidian.

Against the east wall of Baddley’s office, which is at the vertex of the southwest corner of the third floor of the College’s Converse Hall, is a bookshelf that could be the subject of one of Baddley’s photographs: three feet wide and about six feet tall with five shelves, it’s made of the brown, faux-wood laminate found in LDS Church ward clerk’s offices in the 1970s.  Four of the shelves contain books on photography and art and the creative process. But the fifth supports a two-foot-long Casio 61-key portable keyboard, which rests on the shelf at an oblique angle not unlike the light cannister askew in the apple tree.