Elisabeth Sunday “Grace”
Throckmorton Fine Art
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For 26 years, Elisabeth Sunday, has found her muse in Africa: a place of origins, devastating beauty, great troubles and unyielding expressions of life. She’s traveled alone and lived among various original peoples who amidst a changing world, have clung tenaciously to traditional ways of life. From the hunter-gatherers dwelling in the primeval forests of the Congo Basin, to the nomadic tribes inhabiting the vast stretches of the Sahara Desert, Sunday’s photographs reveal an interplay of invisible forces that connect her subjects with the world of nature. Utilizing a flexible mirror of her own design, Sunday photographs reflections that blend and dissolve the boundaries between her figures and their environment. Sunday’s images express an intimacy with a corresponding strength derived from that relationship. She writes: “Mirror photography is much more than photographing a reflection, it produces a visual alchemy that combines the physical world with that of the great mystery….and captures some element that remains hidden in straight photography.”
“Mirror photography is much more than photographing a reflection, it produces a visual alchemy that combines the physical world with that of the great mystery. Photographing with mirrors allows me to see the world in a different light and capture some element that remains hidden in straight photography. The use of elongation in indigenous and western art has long been an archetype for the unconscious. Following in this tradition, I use my mirror to shine into the internal deep spaces where we universally connect to something greater.” - Elisabeth Sunday, 2011
[Image: Elisabeth Sunday “Young, Hammer Mother and Child, Omo Valley, Ethiopia” (2011) Platinum Print 30 x 25 in.]
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from May 02, 2013 to July 08, 2013