Donna Gordon

Trashed Sidewalk Flowers, Brattle St., Cambridge

Inspired by: Robert Adams, Bulldozed Slash Evelyn Rydz, Gulf Pile John Willis, Recycled Realities 1

digital print on Nepalese paper

16″ x 20″

2022

I was walking in my neighborhood in Cambridge, MA, when I came across a bouquet of flowers strewn on the sidewalk outside a large house set back from the road. The flowers had been thrown down and had begun to decompose, but some of their colors and structural beauty remained. I wondered about the moment when whomever had entertained or sat solitary with them, had chosen to throw them away. Their accidental beauty was compelling and I stayed a little while and made several photographs. The image is printed on Nepalese paper, a handmade paper worn at the edges that seems to suit their fragile, wasting state. I was drawn to three images in the loan–that of Robert Adams, Evelyn Rydz, John Willis–for the same reason I was attracted to the trashed flowers. All share the complex quality of what remains after being used up and disrupted by human hands.

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Donna Gordon

4 Rescue Horses Outside Laramie, Wyoming

lithograph

29″ x 41″

2021

I was doing a residency at Brush Creek Arts in Saratoga, Wyoming in 2019. On my way home I stopped At Deerwood Ranch, an ecosanctuary for wild horses. We drove out onto the range and got out to be with the horses, who ranged from lying down, to racing in a pack. Two years later, I was able to make this lithograph that’s part of my Double Vision series.

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