{"id":1887,"date":"2021-10-03T23:23:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T23:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spectrumphotogallery.org\/home\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2021-10-04T04:09:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T04:09:09","slug":"environments-blueskies-secretspaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spectrumphotogallery.org\/home\/2021\/10\/03\/environments-blueskies-secretspaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Environments-BlueSkies-SecretSpaces"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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“Environments, Under Blue Skies, Secret Spaces”<\/strong>
An Exhibit Featuring the Photography of
Larry Cusick, Sally Stallings and Kathy Wosika<\/strong><\/h2>

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October 7 – October 31, 2021<\/h3>

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ENVIRONMENTS
<\/strong>by
Larry Cusick<\/strong><\/h2>

My journey into the world of photography began in college when I took a photojournalism class. I was hooked by the idea that you could tell a story with pictures. Each assignment challenged me to find an image that spoke words. And the opportunities seemed limitless. Everywhere you look there is a story playing out. Even now, I find the work of photojournalists to be most compelling.<\/p>

Since then, I have been a shutterbug, taking pictures of family and vacations. I became more seriously involved in photography after retirement when I discovered birding and bird photography. The challenge of capturing wild birds in the field rekindled something in me that I found mysterious and rewarding. I thought of this quest as environmental photojournalism. I see stories everywhere–in wildlife and in human interaction. My goal is always to capture a story.<\/p>

I entitled my small part of the show Environments<\/em>. This awkward title is a perhaps best ignored, and to just let my photographs say it all. You\u2019ll see some birds and some nature, as well as people, in their own environments. I hope that each picture says something to you. It might not be exactly what I intended, but that is okay.<\/p>

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Under Blue Skies<\/strong>
by
Sally Stallings<\/strong><\/h2>

Starved for color, beauty, and a piece of blue from above. I craved splendor of the California I have always loved. This was my focus.<\/p>

Recently we lost our California. Acres of fiery infernos have incinerated homes and forests once teaming with wildlife and cherished irreplaceable memories. Homes that hosted family dinners, wedding celebrations, children off to school, graduation parties all gone… charred beyond recognition into smoldering black crusts, stumps, slabs of blackened concrete, and grey powdery earth. Grey ash, like fish scales, wandering from putrid skies poisoning every breath you take.<\/p>

We lost security and safety from a horrifying pandemic that smacked everyone in the face with fear of sickness, death, and necessary isolation from family and friends. This unrelenting oppression from Covid and smoke saturated skies has been suffocating. I have felt psychologically imprisoned in a smothering nightmare…<\/p>

There were times, however, on 8:00 o\u2019clock morning walks I found relief in my 1920 neighborhoods. Stretches of sidewalks threaded together cared for homes, neighbors, and grassy colorful front yards. There were \u201cgood mornings\u201d and \u201chellos, and \u201chow are you\u201d? from residents watering flower beds, pruning bushes, and mowing lawns while pajamaed kids roller skated in driveways…all home because of the shutdown. \u00a0<\/p>

Wearing my N95 I heeded friendly neighbors conversing from one side of the street to the other.\u00a0 Social distance maintained. I nodded to straw hatted mothers planting flowers with babies close by in netted play pens. All were friendly. All courageous. Everyone a warrior struggling to maintain some sort of normalcy exerting sheer will and smiles to keep going forward.<\/p>

Some of these photos were taken on these morning walks.<\/p>

I dedicate my portion of this show to all our 2020-2021 medical personnel who fought and are still fighting the spreading Covid and to our fire fighters who suffer beyond measure, but continue on, braving the all -consuming firewalls of hell.\u00a0<\/p>

I am so profoundly grateful.<\/p>

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Secret Spaces
<\/strong>by
Kathy Wosika<\/strong><\/h2>

In February of 2020<\/u>, right before the Covid virus sent us all running for cover,\u00a0 I had my first ever photo exhibit at Fig Tree Gallery here in Fresno.\u00a0 The photos in that exhibit were taken over a 20+ year period of time from airplanes, flying between the East and West Coasts of the\u00a0U.S. at 30,000 feet!\u00a0 Originally, these photos were never taken as Art Photography per se – they were primarily collected as resource materials – ideas for use in teaching design, or to be incorporated into my creative work in ceramics or fibers. From such a distance, the earth below offers us a rich canvas filled with beautiful yet ephemeral compositions.\u00a0 This amazing \u201caerial art gallery\u201d is created by rock, water, soil and plants, as well as man\u2019s interactions with these elements.\u00a0 Change is ever the constant.<\/p>

All of the images in this exhibit<\/u>, Secret Spaces,<\/u> were taken under the sequester imposed on all levels of our lives and society by the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) virus.\u00a0 Just 2 weeks after my exhibit closed, life as we knew it also shut down as we faced, too often alone and apart from loved ones, a devastating world pandemic that has yet to release its\u2019 grip on us.<\/p>

The images that had previously captivated me from my airplane flights were vast and expansive, but I now found myself turning inward and looking deeply into the plants, and especially flowers growing in our garden.\u00a0 I found myself wanting to crawl around the interior of a flower – much like its\u2019 pollinators do by nature – and experience its\u2019 internal secret architecture.\u00a0 And so, I spent many hours a day working with flowers, tripod and an iPhone fitted with a macro lens, while the news of the year played out in the background.\u00a0 Here too, I found that Change is ever the constant. A flower\u2019s passage from youth through old age exposed some amazing visual surprises.\u00a0 I very often found a suggestion of bird-like forms in these internal spaces.\u00a0 There were also figures which seemed to have large bulging \u201ceyes\u201d, but actually were the flower parts that contained the seeds of the next generation.\u00a0 I used to tell my Papermaking students that once you\u2019ve made paper out of your own garden plants, you\u2019ll never see the plant world the same again.\u00a0 I can now truly say the same about the experience of exploring the mysterious interiors of a flower!\u00a0 I hope you enjoy this journey.<\/p>

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