In looking at myself I see my mother, and every woman who came before me. I see the constraints imposed on them, by society, family and themselves. I see the resignation and the surrender, and I see a glimmer of courage and strength coalescing to emerge anew. What are we really considering when we photograph […]
Memory
Mary Anne Mitchell: Dreamscape
Mary Anne Mitchell recently mounted an immersive installation, Dreamscape, at Thomas Deans Fine Art in Atlanta, GA. Unfortunately, I couldn’t feature the exhibition while it was installed, but wanted to make sure to share it. The gallery was transformed into a ghostly, dreamlike environment, allowing the visitor to experience the fluidity of her photographs printed […]
Judi Iranyi: Remembering Michael
I recently taught a workshop in San Miguel de Allende during Dia de los Muertos. It was a profound experience to see hundreds of Mexicans celebrating their lost loved ones in a joyous and colorful way. I’ve thought a lot about how we remember those who have passed on and discovering Judi Iranyi’s project about […]
Virgil DiBiase: My husband won’t tell me his first name
“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.” Mark Twain Virgil DiBiase’s project My husband won’t tell me his first name was another portfolio I selected for the […]
Bob Tanner: What Was Left Behind
Bob Tanner has created a meditative still life project on the transience of the metaphorical tea bag, suddenly sculptural with the addition of hot water and again deflated into new incarnations of shape and form. Freud said that the temporal limitations of object do not devalue an object. He said that the transience may increase […]
Heather Evans Smith: Alterations
Wikipedia describes the word nostalgia as being “associated with a yearning for the past, its personalities, and events, especially the “good old days” or a “warm childhood”. This description fits Heather Evans Smith’s richly saturated conceptual still lifes that feel at once part of the past and present, yet it’s that combination of what once […]