by Susan Bryant
April 7 — June 30, 2023
"I'm interested in the dualities in our lives, and how they might be explored and expressed through the landscape and hand gestures. I am easily astonished. While photographing the southern landscape, I'm often surprised and astonished by how quickly nature can change from comforting to threatening and that each of these conditions are imbued with beauty and mystery. Light and darkness are the primary dualities in nature that become metaphors for human emotion. On my road trips I often lose my way on back roads and capture these experiences as evidence of my personal journey. My most recent work is a series of still-lifes using hands as metaphors for prayer and grace, receiving and acceptance, healing and recovery and the duality of letting go and being held. I collect objects. The hands I collect (which make up little tableaux all around my home) communicate something about who I am, how I feel, and what I think about in ways that words often fail. I can’t imagine a better way for me to reveal emotions, experiences, moments of awe or enlightenment or fear or grace. My camera is my voice."
