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Colleen Fitzgerald
Land & Sea XVI
Inspired by: Robert Adams, Bulldozed Slash
pigment print
11″ x 14″
2020
‘Land & Sea XVI’, from the photography series ‘Stamina’, is a colorful piece that responds to the black and white print by Adams. Both pieces use film and uniquely showcase distorted trees within the landscape. Adams’ work embraces regrowth and endurance within nature, showcasing a detailed view of the forest in flux. ‘Land & Sea XVI’ uses an experimental process; large format film is bent and sculpted in-camera, resulting in a distorted reimaging of the landscape it pictures, including foliage and trees. Adams’ work whispers of the resilience of nature, and ‘Land & Sea XVI’ also incorporates the endurance of the material of film itself as it is bent and pushed to its limits. The two sheets of sculpted transparency film overlap, creating a new perspective. Both works indicate the intervention and presence of the human hand and gesture, whether on the film itself or directly in the environment.
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Family Photo Album Covers
woven pigment prints
12″ x 16″
2023
memory of a memory of a photo of my favorite family vacation
acrylic and pigment print
5″ x 7″
2024
Meaning of Marks
pigment prints and transparency
11″ x 14″
2024
side slipping
wallpaper and framed pigment print
24 x 30 inch wallpaper and 3.75 x 3.75 inch pigment print
2024
Faded, Restored, and Backside (Version 1)
pigment print
8″ x 10″
2024
and to hold
cyanotype
8″ x 10″
2024
Matresence
pigment print and thread
8″ x 8″
2024
hidden histories
pigment print
8″ x 10″
2024
Colleen Fitzgerald
Land & Sea XVI (B)
pigment print
11″ x 14″
2020
Land & Sea XVI (B)’ uses experimental photography to reimagine cliché fall foliage landscapes. The work uses a unique physical process, including an in-camera technique of the artist’s creation. Unexposed sheets of film are cut and folded into 3D shapes before being exposed. The film is developed and then rephotographed on a lightbox. This piece exists in a series that showcases these same two pieces of film from other perspectives, providing multiple perspectives from single exposures. This process reconstructs reality and the material that records reality; It is not a direct representation of the world, but a negotiation of vision.
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