Exhibition Announcement: Transitional Moments: Photographs by Ruth Adams and Marita Gootee
Sept 23- Oct 26th at Studio San Giuseppe on the campus of The
College of Mount Saint Joseph in Cincinnati OH.
Artist reception is
September 28th 4-7pm.
Ruth Adams work titled Meditations
Eyes Wide presents ‘street photography roots with meditation”.
Marita
Gootee’s body of work titled The Journey
with Sand and Water draws focus to the quiet moments lost in the sounds and
actions of the present.
The Journey With Sand And Water
Journey is defined in the Webster’s New World
Dictionary as ‘to travel from one place to another’.
Everyday one wakes to see meet a new day and continues
the personal journey through life. It is a both personal and public experience.
It is filled with dreams, visions, memories and reflections – so many that
subtle nuances flash by without recognition.
The flicker of time and how one presents this fleeting
memory has always been a major aspect of my work. It does not yield exactness
of imagery rather the impression of a moment. I do not portray the chaos of
dreams nor the non-representational design of the total abstract thought. Rather
I search for the mental visual; tags that convey the emotion for location and
the feeling for the moment. I search to express visually the quite moments of
the memory. The journey from the present to the past as one moves through the
reality of the day. It is my goal to bring the moment back to the surface so
others may share the experience of the mountain trail or the child in the
ocean. Still it more than the obvious – it is the mood created that we all
share untied to the location presented. It is the spiritual quality of nature
and the whimsy of play.
The journey I have undertaken is to have the viewer to
‘think again’ about the quite moments that are lost by the sounds and actions
of the present. This is a personal journey through abstracted thoughts and
emotions that I bring to the public. These are reflections of moments that
should not be forgotten or lost. Although created by a single individual these
images are not to be owned by one but shared by many through a reflection of
the private moment.
The Sand Shadows Series with its blurred imagery and hints of color are
fragments of the moment. They have a touch of romance for a memory or an
emotion. The images permit travel within a memory as the viewer is swept by the
visual motion and timeless quality. The images are much like the subject as it
blends with the ocean and is drawn out to the sea. The surf cannot be stopped
or held back by man. Neither can time.
In
the Shifting Landscape Series I am
drawn to the landscape as I reflect upon the passage of time. The pinhole
camera provides a vehicle for capturing the location and the passing of the
moment in unison. It becomes a window into the mysteries of the natural world.
The images reflect the spiritual quality of the land. The majority of the
images are not grand vistas but rather the over-looked beauty of what wonder
lies around us. The use of color in the images further expresses the wonder and
mystery of nature and how humans perceive nature.
Each
image is a new and creative interpretation of a visual memory. My goal for the
viewer is to accept and refresh through the visual exploration of this imagery.
Technique: The images that I produce are
created with the use of various pinhole cameras, Zero Image and the Leonardo
8x10. I expose on film and print the images traditionally in the darkroom. The
images are then hand tinted using standard colored pencils and a touch of
linseed oil.
This exhibition is in conjunction with FOTOFOCUS a tri-state
celebration spotlighting historical and contemporary photography throughout the
month of OCT.
