Online Group Exhibition - "Palimpsest” February 2023
Analog Forever Magazine is pleased to showcase 55 images in this month’s online exhibition, entitled “Palimpsest,” curated by experimental alt-process photographer and poet, Angel O’Brien!
Angel O’Brien writes:
We are each of us a palimpsest, an amalgam of all that has come before, some bits retaining prominence and others, more faded and indecipherable. Yet still, we are so much who we are because of what is and was around us, even when their traces have vanished. For Palimpsest, I was seeking out photography that had an aura of simultaneity, multiplicity of being. I wanted to see work that was ethereal, layered, fractured, eroded, complex, and that carried many stories within it. I was ever so delighted in the entirety of the submissions and greatly enjoyed looking over them many times. It was a process to see which works embodied the theme and which of those were speaking to each other in a way that they would contribute to a cohesive whole. I was quite pleased to see so many photographs that challenged my own definitions and ideas, some of which are included here. Like the street corner that bears different names and dates stamped into the concrete and yet another name on the street sign, it is a wondrous thing to see the bits of life that time has left for us as souvenirs from before. It is such a joy for me to see work that has found a way to evoke such multiplicity in photography. I have endless gratitude to everyone who submitted, thank you!
~ Angel O’Brien
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ABOUT THE CURATOR
Angel O’Brien is an experimental alt-process photographer and poet who lives in Portland, Oregon. Her hands have not been far from a camera since 1994 when she made her first photographs with a 5x7 Cambo view camera in her makeshift bathroom turned darkroom. In the last five or six years, Angel has taken a sharp turn and found herself in a photographic sandbox where she can let her creativity run wild. Now she plays with imagery and mediums to create surrealist, collaged, embroidered {self}portraits that explore themes of melancholy, censorship, sight/insight/blindness, and existing in the world as a woman and mother. Her work was most recently on the cover of the current issue of Analog Forever (Edition 7), and has been published in The Hand Magazine, SHOTS Magazine, and Mountain Bluebird literary arts magazine. Angel has exhibited her work in solo and group shows internationally as well as all over the US and has two books forthcoming in 2023.
