“Weaving is the art of connecting threads, much like art connects us to the stories and traditions of those who came before us. Each piece is a tactile expression of time, memory, and craft.” ~Jen Dauberman
Threads of Cyan & Earth
Botanical Contact print for the background. I then wove in items from foraging around Little Switzerland, NC.
The Artist Intervenes
https://www.praxisphotocenter.org/
In Fishing Blues, I explore memory, presence, and loss through layered interventions on a vintage photograph. Using cyanotype processes, the original photo and its negative are recontextualized with torn cyanotype scraps, stitched fabric, and physical textures. These elements become both frame and fragmentation—echoes of time, repetition, and the delicate act of remembering. This mixed media piece reflects on how we alter, preserve, and sometimes obscure our histories through artistic reconstruction.
'The Artist Intervenes' is an international juried exhibition hosted by Praxis Photo Arts Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This show highlights contemporary artists who push the boundaries of traditional photography by physically altering, layering, and transforming photographic surfaces. From cutting and sewing to drawing, painting, and collage, each piece in the exhibition reflects a hands-on approach to image-making—where the artist’s hand is not only visible, but essential.
By showcasing photographic interventions, the exhibition explores how artists reinterpret memory, narrative, and materiality through experimental and tactile processes. Fishing Blues was selected for inclusion as an innovative example of mixed media cyanotype and vintage photography, emphasizing the ways photography can be both an image and an object, a document and a dialogue.