From November 01, 2024 to November 30, 2024
Photography to me, represents a composite of my personal
feelings, emotions, values and experiences expressed on a
canvas. It is as if the artwork is an open window where artist
and viewer peer one to the other in a silent exchange.
Images from “My Heart Exposed”, Volume 1, are created in a
process that includes entering a meditative state where
feelings, intuition and curiosity drive choices made in an
experimental photographic process. This process lends an
element of unpredictability, and as a result parameters are set
for embracing surprises and allowing the image to evolve. The
decisions I make are influenced by my innermost feelings and
thus, each image presents a visually poetic reflection of my
unique story.
My personal story is made all the more poignant by the recent
loss of family and intense emotional turmoil of the past year.
This chaotic and complicated year of love, loss and strife
made maintaining a sense of self a major challenge. I am
often reminded of time spent in nature with lost family
members, and I cherish the thought of loved one’s hands
guiding me in a shared love of nature and an expression that
uses plants as an artistic voice. I invite viewers to draw on
their own experiences and allow their hearts to embark on a
journey of reflection and discovery within each image.
“My Heart Exposed”, Volume 1 are sunshine exposed Lumens
with hand painted cyanotype on expired photographic paper.
While developing this technique, I have experimented with
different types of photographic paper, timing of exposure and
elements that change the chemical reaction between plants
and paper. Images evolve and change during the
development process and I present captures of those stages
in unaltered true color. While some images are fixed and will
remain stable, others will continue to evolve and eventually
dissipate altogether.
Curator: Ann Jastrab
Carolyn Moore is a fourth generation Californian, raised in a
family of artists and outdoor enthusiasts. Her love of nature is
evident in her artwork having spent much of her formative
years hiking, swimming, backpacking and enjoying the vast
diversity in nature. Equally adept at both music and art, her
formal education fell to music. Degrees were completed at
University of California Berkeley, University of Oslo and
Conservatory of Music, Norway. After a fulfilling and
successful career of performance and teaching of flute,
percussion and special needs music, her focus since 2005
has turned to visual expression through photography.
Artistic inspiration came early in life when presented with paint
brushes and a brownie box camera by her artist father at the
age of 7. Mostly self taught, Carolyn has experimented with
many photographic techniques - everything from digital, to
film based using plastic or pinhole cameras and handmade or
lensless processes.
Since 2007 Carolyn has received multiple photographic
honors and awards and has been juried into several exhibits
at the Soho Photo Gallery, New York. Carolyn has been
published in Color Magazine and has participated in multiple
solo and collective exhibits both in the United States and
Europe. She is currently a member of the Center for
Photographic Art and proudly serves as Steering Committee
Chair for Image Makers Photographers of Monterey.
