mirrored reflection lit onto a surface, held in points to deny the true passage of time and decay
An attempt at a forever memory as materialized
The Letter “U”
Socially-engaged art
Film photograph
w. Laura Glazer, Shelbie Loomis, and students from Martin Luther King School Elementary
Portland, Oregon
2022
Socially-engaged art
Film photograph
w. Laura Glazer, Shelbie Loomis, and students from Martin Luther King School Elementary
Portland, Oregon
2022
In the spring of 2022, I worked with Laura Glazer and Lisa Jarrett to organize a workshop with Wendy Ewald for Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice MFA program. Wendy led a multi-day workshop sharing her collaborative processes using the camera and image-based media. Based on one of Wendy’s projects in collaboration with designer Katy Homans and educators in Tanzania, the MFA cohort worked with Wendy to practice socially engaged image-making. The cohort created a photographic alphabet about the Martin Luther King Elementary School, where the King School Museum of Contemporary Art (KSMoCA) is located. The image above was taken to represent the letter “U” for the word “Useful”. The image was created in collaboration with two elementary students and artists Laura Glazer and Shelbie Loomis. After showing our student collaborators how the Yashica TLR Medium Format worked, we worked together to compose the image for “U’. The students chose to demonstrate how a trash can is useful.
