Floral Fractals: Imaging in a Digital Culture
Gladys Tietz Mercier

GALLERY III

October 5 - October 29, 2011

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 6, 2011, 6-9 pm

My work is a visual journal of my experiences with a focus to nature, landscape and human interaction. Patterns in nature provide formal structure, composition, and color as well as fascinating imagery. As I travel through the seasons, I have different references. Human elements invade natures’ currents leaving questionable artifacts, clues to what might be considered significant intelligent life, contemporary anthropology. After a winter's hiatus, spring brings renewal, rebirth and life begins again. Within nature’s beauty there is not only peace and comfort but also destruction and discord. Beneath the facade of a simpler life as hunter-gatherer, is a complexity that mimics the harshness of Midwest seasons. My florals are portraits, a metaphor for life and death, fertility and decay. While the finished product is a solitary image, the process not only involves photography and printing making, but planting, tending, and harvesting. Scale and color provides a personal relationship with each piece.

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