2027 SPE Annual Conference: Community in Contrast
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print this pageStill Here, Still Working: Recent Works and New Explorations
Ardine Nelson
Friday, October 16 - 9:30AM to 10:30AM
Hopkins 246
During my photographic artist career, landscape or elements that reference landscape have been my main aesthetic theme. This most recent body of work, Transitory States, continues these concerns through the perceived "aerial view "of an immense surface. Wabi-Sabi – the aesthetic of imperfection and impermanence perfectly describes this work. How do we mark milestones? Our cultural emphasis on youth, freshness and perfection, misses the importance of experience, of life well lived. Plant materials are discarded as soon as the glorious bloom begins to decline. My images explore the aging process and all the signs of passing time. Surfaces wrinkle and may fade. Small creatures suddenly appear on plant materials attempting to live from its declining vigor. Any hint of fragrance no longer remains to enjoy. As negative as this may sound, I have come to embrace the aging process and look to a more mature appreciation of all stages of life.
Through this time, I have often saved the dried plant materials that I photographed and currently have quite a selection. Not all specimens photographed have dried as an interesting visual but for those that have I have been searching for an approach to "display" them along with my macro photographs of the same materials. Several months ago I participated in an Encaustic workshop and became entranced with the possibilities of combining a smaller print with various actual dried plant material.
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