Objects Embodied: Portals, Memory & Meaning
Objects Embodied: Portals, Memory & Meaning—A Practice Group Circle Back
August 27th @ 7 PM EDT on Zoom
The objects in our possession carry ancient energy, but it is energy that can be transformed by re-imagining our relationship to the spirits those objects contain—sometimes by simply taking them for a walk in the woods or down a stone path, or placing them onto a windowsill, and letting the play of light do its magic. And most beautiful of all, it is often those smallest of moments with the simplest of objects that can transport us in unexpected and powerful ways.
For eight weeks this summer, our practice group explored the power of objects as portals to memory and meaning. With fire as metaphor, we let light and our internal energy guide us.
Join circle back participants:
Lyn Swett Miller: IG @lynswettmiller
Sarah Barker: IG @sezwhophoto
Lisa Stockton Howell: IG @lisastocktonhowell
Dafna Steinberg: IG @dafnasteinbergart
Ann Moore Villano: @annvillo
Artist Bios:
Ann Villano grew up in Washington, D.C., and has pursued work in filmmaking, education, and photography. She earned a BA in English from Colby College in Waterville, ME., an MFA in filmmaking from Columbia University, School of the Arts, and completed coursework in ceramics at the Corcoran School of Art. She currently lives in Lakeville, CT with her family and teaches in the Photography, Film, and Related Media program at The Hotchkiss School. Much of her photography is inspired by her summers in Blue Hill, Maine and her visits to San Miguel de Allende.
Dafna Steinberg is a lens-based artist living and working in the Philadelphia area. Her work embodies themes such as grief, personal intimacy, and gender. She has photography/art degrees from Hampshire College, Goldsmiths, Moore College of Art & Design and the International Center of Photography. She teaches at Delaware County Community College and Albright College.
Lyn Swett Miller is a micro-climate photographer who celebrates regeneration, transformation and renewal one photograph, one story, one day at a time. For Lyn, compost is metaphor, curiosity is guide, connection is key and objects of all kinds serve as portals for memory and meaning.
Lynn Cricket Woodward has been a photographer her entire life - - including work in portraits, events, products, art and photojournalism. Woodward’s current work includes handmade prints, books, weavings, paintings, inks and of course, multi-media creations. A longtime resident of the Western US, Woodward currently lives in North Carolina near her family.
Sarah Barker loves making photographs and her work has been exhibited locally and internationally. Sarah lives and works on the unceded land of the Gadigal (now known as Sydney, Australia) where she began her career in a commercial photography studio last century.
Dafna Steinberg: IG @dafnasteinbergart
Lisa Stockton Howell: IG @lisastocktonhowell
Lyn Swett Miller: IG @lynswettmiller
Sarah Barker: IG @sezwhophoto
Ann Moore Villano: @annvillo
