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A Definite Pursuit Of Uncertainty: Beaveranotypes



These images are ghostly, haunting, even mesmerizing. He has seized the common and the ordinary about him and bestowed a mysterious history upon them. These places, figures and objects seem to be recorded from a visit to the edge of reality. Beaver shows us a world we might have only sensed somewhere in the layers of our subconscious; perhaps we've seen these things and places in a dream, somewhere at the edge of waking & asleep. We can't quite remember where. Maybe it's what we saw once out of the corner of our eye‚and it slid away as soon as we turned to gaze full upon it. These images do physically slide under our inspection, moving forward and back in their surfaces, it's here...,now it's there...,out there..., over there. The mood of the works is almost entirely one of hints. We peer through the veil Beaver has swept over his world, wondering. And we have to cling to the center, the only stable ground, here there is focus --we've only this tunnel-like vision to work with. Leave it and move outward toward the edges and all dissolves under our feet. The intriguing graininess draws the eye in. It's a texture to relish and savor, giving room to dream and speculate, play in, float away in. Worry about. Yes, worry, for there's Being Here, there's memory, nostalgia, mystery, intrigue, sadness, loss, fading-away-ness, intransigency, fuzz of vision and blurriness of heart. So one worries: Is this the only record of this bit of life? Is this all we have? What the heck was it about? What went on? --and the sinking feeling that we'll never exactly find out....

Process is almost everything for this photographer. For him, seeking out a process becomes an unconscious search for a language to speak his visions. Technique becomes the catalyst inserted into the chemical soup of the art-making part of his brain.

Ferro-types and heliographics are other terms applied to these works.

Since this process often can take up to four hours for a single image to materialize, a certain tree is a frequent subject because it is one of the more captivating subjects a few steps from his office. The photographic process is free to amble along at its painstakingly slow pace under the ultraviolet rays of the sun while inside the photographer can attend to the business of teaching physics and astronomy.



There Is Nothing: New, Under The Sun; Carol Ann Beaver's Exhibit


An onlooker wryly pronounced this project as "making a silk purse out of a sow's ear!" but that was merely the first day, April 20, that Carol Beaver began taking photos. What her eye sought out with that first look through her camera's viewfinder has upheavaled into a mountain of incredible tapestries woven of Carol's unique vision of the mundane & gritty world of street construction. The sheer number of images in their present 4 X 6" format placed next to each other would cover an a 20' X 60' area-- and this area continues to grow as Carol pursues her vision. Following her eye through the weeks, the days, the little visions that make up each individual day, the artists' psyche unfolds with amazing richness. One feels priviledged to be allowed to see this world through this artist's unique eye. Perhaps because we are an ordered image trained society--we like our films, our slide shows--we like seeing this work as a tale from end to end, image folllowing upon image, from start to end.
And then we want to see it all over again, from the beginning.
Check out the under-construction slide show teaser Coming Soon...

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