Deeply Seeing with Lynn Alleva Lilley
Deeply Seeing
with Lynn Alleva Lilley
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, March 22nd, at 7 pm EDT
As we continue our exploration of “partners” by celebrating our interconnected relationships with the more-than-human world, please join us for a rich conversation with Lynn Alleva Lilley. Lynn’s projects, including her artist photobook Deep Time, inspire contemplation of time, creation, evolution, and interspecies connection.
Deep Time emerged for Lynn during an intense period of photographing and learning about the world of the Atlantic horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, which unexpectedly became a sort of muse, opening up a world of opportunity for both internal and external discovery–and realizing they are one. The photographs contained in Deep Time were made in Lewes, Delaware, surrounding beaches, and in the laboratory using microscopes at the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean and Environment, revealing how science can be an inspiration for art.
Together we will explore what deep time looks and feels like in the present, and the role that contemplation, photographic curiosity, and research can play in both our processes and our projects.
This dynamic conversation will be facilitated by photographer and bookmaker Frances Bukovsky and environmental artist and scientist Kaye Savage.
Lynn Alleva Lilley is an American photographer born in Washington, DC and currently living in Silver Spring, MD. At the core of her photographic work is connection with place and nature. She has a particular interest in the photobook as a uniquely intimate way of presenting her photographs. Her first photobook, Tender Mint, includes photographs made in Jordan (2011-2014) which embody loss, grief, and surprising, otherworldly beauty. The photographs in her photobook, Deep Time (Spring 2019), present the mysterious life and world of the Atlantic horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus. This work was photographed on the shores of Delaware Bay and other nearby inlets. In 2018, Lynn returned to Silver Spring, MD from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan where she lived, and photographed, with her family during 2016-2018. She continues to photograph the woods, streams, wildlife and human engagement in Sligo Creek, her neighborhood park, for a body of work she began in 2014. She is also photographing a body of work on the shores of Lewes Beach in Delaware and nearby Point Comfort. Lynn began as a self-taught photographer over 25 years ago and later studied with photographer Terri Weifenbach in Maryland and Washington, D.C.
Lynn has taught photography to foreign students in Jordan as well as young Jordanians in several refugee camps there. She also taught in a local private school in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
