2026 SPE Annual Conference: Catalyst for Exchange
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print this pageIMAGEMAKER DIALOGUE: Terry Ratzlaff & Brittany Nelson
Friday, October 18 - 11:00AM to 12:00PM
Graduate Hotel, Sixty Room, 3rd floor
Terry Ratzlaff presents his work The Watcher: Craig C. has been watching trains from the parking lot of The Old Mill since 1983. Like Craig obsessively searching for meaning within the operations of trains, Ratzlaff obsessively searched for meaning in Craig watching trains, only to discover much more than anticipated. Using multiple forms of the photo book, The Watcher explores the banality of existence by focusing on the minutiae of passing time where everything is significant and full of wonder.
Brittany Nelson will discuss her research and the collaborative process in constructing her monograph "Out Of The Everywhere" from Mousse Publishing. Working with curators, researchers, and other artists, essays and visual works were commissioned for the monograph to allow others to speak on and expand Nelson's research on her behalf. The themes addressed in the publication include feminist science fiction, queer and historical abstraction, and isolation.
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Brittany Nelson
Terry Ratzlaff
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