LISA DIMONDSTEIN
Connection
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ARTIST STATEMENT:
As it did for most everyone, the pandemic changed me. It forced me to truly consider what connection meant to me; how to make it meaningful, how to sustain it within the isolation, and how to uncover it in things/places I might not normally have considered looking.
In the spring of 2020 time slowed. Without my usual distractions, I found myself spending hours on the ground photographing and observing wildflowers. The smallest of things in the woods fascinated me. Being in nature had always nourished me. In those days it became my refuge and container.
At the same time, and in order to maintain our connections, our Photographers Workroom met virtually. We engaged with one another in a Call and Response project. One put out a call. Another responded. It was just enough to sustain us. It was that experience that sparked my journey into finding connections and conversations within my own art. By pairing my photographs I noticed commonalities and differences. I began seeing color, shape, flow and feeling as the the essence of my creation.
While working on this project I felt a new found connection to my sister. We had shared our passion for art and photography together. We had only just begun our joint exploration with models and dancers when she died in 2010. The pandemic felt seismic in my life, and to not be able to share that experience with her brought a new sense of loss. In the process of making these pairings, I felt her beside me; her presence and her love.
These pairs are about gesture, simplicity of form, color and relationships. The human form echoes nature’s organic forms, and the wildflowers dance when paired with their graceful partners. They are engaged in their own quiet conversations. Together and apart. Apart and back together. It’s my sister and I. It’s me and my sister. It’s where I’d hoped and imagined we might be connecting today.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Photographing the natural world, for me, is a contemplative process. I am drawn into patterns. reflections, form and light and while I'm photographing time disappears.
Through my fine art photography I want to capture a sense of place that may not be literal but holds the feeling or essence of what I'm seeing or experiencing. I'm drawn to a sense of movement and fluidity in images and work with montages, movement, multiple exposures and infrared as tools to capture a moment in time.
In 2003, following a life long interest in photography I attended the Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Montana for a 3 month intensive program. I have studied with and been inspired by many fine art photographers including Eddie Soloway, Elizabeth Opalenik and Freeman Patterson.
You can see more of Lisa’s work - here.
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All artwork is available for sale.
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Lisa Dimondstein:
lisadimondstein@me.com