As summer winds down, we've been drawn to a newly arrived piece from Tabitha Soren's series Lightness of Being, now at Jackson Fine Art.
Soren begins by photographing in the field with an 8x10 camera and available light. She then layers acrylic, varnish, or oil onto the print to draw out hidden dimensions, and rephotographs the altered image with extended exposures and handmade lighting. Light itself becomes both subject and tool for Soren — a way to explore the gap between what we see and what exists.
“Today, every image in the world is available to us. […] But images are not equal to the experiences that precede their generation. From our faulty memories to our casual family photographs to snaps of random moments on our phones, our drive to generate images is an attempt to recover a fullness of experience that cannot be relived.
Lightness of Being pushes against images getting us lost in their flow, not by seeking something behind the image, but by making images that are self-conscious of their own mediation. Every work is a product of vision, a view, a lens, a crop, a screen, then printing, reviewing, marking, reprinting, and framing. There is never just one image.”
- Tabitha Soren
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