Beauty and Brokenness with Trebbe Johnson
Beauty and Brokenness with Trebbe Johnson
Six Week Practice Group - Starts August 24th and meets every Thursday from 7 - 8:30 pm ET via Zoom
What happens when a photographer brings their artistic consciousness to a place that is damaged, toxic, or in some way tragic? What do you see—and what do you wish to convey? Sorrow? A sense of what happened or might happen in the future? Something ironic that suggests one thing but could mean something else entirely? A sign of hope?
In this practice series we focus on the relationship between what is beautiful and what is broken. We’ll explore:
how impressions shape your images
how simply turning in a half-circle can reshape both impressions and images
contradictions (or balances) between the beautiful and the ugly, the broken and the whole
what you, as a human being, might look like to this place
Most important of all, you’ll deepen your own relationship to what is broken in the world and how you confront and negotiate that expanding outlook.
Kinship uses a pay-what-you-can honor system with a minimum donation or $50. The average contribution for a six-week practice group is $125. Please give as generously as you can. If you cannot afford the minimum contribution of $50 please don't hesitate to request a scholarship.
Trebbe Johnson began thinking about bringing attention and beauty to wounded places in 1987, when she interviewed Oneida engineer David Powless and he told her of his belief that the steel waste he had received a National Science Foundation Grant to recycle was but “an orphan from the circle of life.” Before founding Radical Joy for Hard Times she pursued this path by guiding a week-long retreat in a clear-cut old-growth forest on Vancouver Island, British Columbia; offering a ceremony at Ground Zero, New York two months after the September 11 attacks; and leading a workshop in a burned forest. Trebbe is the author of The World Is a Waiting Lover and three books on finding and making beauty in hurt places: Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth’s Broken Places, 101 Ways to Make Guerrilla Beauty, and You Have Made the Earth More Beautiful! She has written many articles about people’s emotional and spiritual relationship with nature. She lives in Ithaca, New York.
Susan Patrice
Susan Patrice
Susan Patrice
