Leslie Greentree: the shadows are only beginning to reveal themselves
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Leslie Greentree: the shadows are only beginning to reveal themselves
photographs and text
In this series of triptychs and diptychs, visual and written reactions to death and loss are brought together through stream-of-consciousness narratives – what someone was doing in the moment they learned of a death; a dead shrew on a leaf-strewn path; a trampoline with broken springs: formerly innocuous actions and items forever rendered symbolic through their accidental collision with a loss. When we zoom in on these details, pairing them with the most difficult moments humans have to face, the clarity and poignancy of the imperfection resonates with greater impact.
Each triptych and diptych is intended to expose the viewer to small moments that allow connections to their own losses to seep in unforced. In most cases, the images do not represent loss or death; they are fragments of the everyday world, up close, in the dark, or seen from an odd angle, stumbled across or sought out at specific times that forever change their meaning.
About the artist
Leslie Greentree is an award-winning poet and fiction writer whose work has been praised for its exploration of the psychological underpinnings of seemingly small moments and her ability to lift ordinary detail into the noteworthy. Less publicly, she has long responded to the visual world through photography – close-ups of the odd and the overlooked, and the strange places in which beauty can be found.
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