Standing in Place
September 7 - 29, 2024, Harvest Gallery, Wolfville, NS
Standing in Place examines the role of the rural landscape in newcomer placemaking and belonging. New pieces expand on earlier methods and themes, including the geological language of care in the Intertidal Zone series (2023) and the subconscious integration of a landscape in works for the Exhaling exhibition (2022). Standing in Place documents three newcomers, Hanna, Emma, and Khansaa, in the geography where they find belonging, and the rural landscape surrounding my new home, through photography, cyanotype, and paper collage.
Exhaling
July 23 - August 21, 2022, Harvest Gallery, Wolfville, NS
Fine Art Photography by Naomi Hill and Oil Paintings by Mary Reardon
Enfolded
For Exhaling, individual threads were photographed moving in the wind over the Wellington Dyke and the fields it protects from flooding by the Canard River. The threads were then brought home and placed within domestic still life compositions. Finally, the threads were arranged within folded paper and photographed at a high exposure resulting in a dream-like topography. This work is a meditation on the joy evoked by a beloved landscape and the extension of this experience into home life and the subconscious.