Vibrations of Trees and Water

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This blue-tinted image of the reflection of trees on water is intentionally provincial, in that it was created with local flora, water, and sunlight. It engages on multiple levels with the landscape where Mika Horie lives: Yamanaka Onsen, Kaga, Japan. She not only roots the image itself in the local but also collects nearby wild gampi branches to make a traditional form of handmade paper. Horie then prints her photographs onto the paper using the early cyanotype printing process, which activates iron salts to create blue-tinted prints on a support. This photograph was selected by Dartmouth students during the 2023 Museum Collecting 101 program on landscape.

From the 2024 exhibition An Instant Out of Time: Shaping a Collection, curated by Alisa Swindell, Associate Curator of Photography

Exhibition History

An Instant Out of Time: Shaping a Collection, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 20-July 21, 2024.

Provenance

Ibasho Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium; sold to present collection, 2023.

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