Natural and Secret Questions
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In the winter of 2018 in residency at the Vermont Studio Center, I began photographing the sun reflecting off melting snow. A Californian who had recently relocated east, the harsher winter was both fascinating and cruel, shocking my unaccustomed sprit into a new vulnerability. I saw the snow as ever-changing, always shifting states from powder to ice to water and back again.
In Natural and Secret Questions, I explore personal mutability and the broader capacity for transformation. As the light from the sun bounces off the ice and water into my lens, it splits into a spectrum of colors, creating otherworldly images. The light so beautifully reflecting off the water as it changes from solid to liquid is the very thing that is causing the material to change. This work explores the transformation between the two states of water as an analog for personal transformation.
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Installation of Transmutation, etc. at the New Residencies exhibition at Phosphor Project Space, Pittsburgh, PA July 2018
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Vimeo.
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Vimeo.
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In the winter of 2018 in residency at the Vermont Studio Center, I began photographing the sun reflecting off melting snow. A Californian who had recently relocated east, the harsher winter was both fascinating and cruel, shocking my unaccustomed sprit into a new vulnerability. I saw the snow as ever-changing, always shifting states from powder to ice to water and back again.
In Natural and Secret Questions, I explore personal mutability and the broader capacity for transformation. As the light from the sun bounces off the ice and water into my lens, it splits into a spectrum of colors, creating otherworldly images. The light so beautifully reflecting off the water as it changes from solid to liquid is the very thing that is causing the material to change. This work explores the transformation between the two states of water as an analog for personal transformation.
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Artists' Talk with Nathan Byrne and Centa Schumacher, led by Emma Vescio
New Residencies exhibition, Phosphor Project Space, Pittsburgh PA
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Installation of Transmutation, etc. at the New Residencies exhibition at Phosphor Project Space, Pittsburgh, PA July 2018
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Regeneration from Centa Schumacher on Vimeo.
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