I participated in a fun exchange project and sent in one of my Spectra Polaroids to the Upstate Art Swap- There will be an exhibition at Emerson Coffee in Utica:
Upstate Art Swap Exhibition x Emerson Ave Coffee, March 14–29
OPENING PARTY
Friday, March 14, 5–7 p.m.
Emerson Ave Coffee, 2011 Genesee St., Utica, N.Y.
This image is from a series I started when I found a few expired boxes of spectra film back in 2020 and started photographing trees. I loved the way the chemicals had dried up and the image was distorted but the lines became part of the landscape. An altered landscape - the colors all wrong- a view of a seemingly different dimension- magical.
I recently went to hear the great Robin Wall Kimmerer speak and she talked about feeling wonder and how that leads to feeling gratitude and how that leads to wanting to give back (instead of always taking) and that resonates with me in my photography- feeling wonder for the trees and the forest and wanting to be among them. Hoping to share that wonder in the images and desire to give back to the trees, to the land, to protect them.