The Seen and Less Seen; Water and Ice

Description

A photography exhibit by Meredith Howe Jones which includes many atypical images taken close up from ground level in ways that illuminate some of the less noticed shape, form, light, and design found in water and ice. Artist's reception: Thursday May 5, 5- 8 p.m. during First Thursday Art Walk.

"While water and ice  sound like a common subject, the images are not. Many are taken close up, from ground level, and often of unnoticed aspects of nature.  For example, the image of a vortex taken in a Quabbin seep is colorful and large, whereas in reality it was about 2 inches in diameter: such colors and movement could not be seen while standing up. Similarly, an image called “Orange Energy” is a tiny reflection in a seep only visible from a supine perspective. Other unusual images include air bubbles under ice, a leaf in a seep, and several ice abstracts.  Meredith’s goal is to illuminate some of the shape, form, light,  and design in the natural world. To capture such images she has to step aside, take time, become slow, and still, engaging in silent study. She lies, sits, or kneels at the edge of streams, swamps, and seeps, or among trees and in fields. In the winter she fight the cold as she squiggles across ice and lies in snow; in the summer she fight ticks and mosquitoes. "