Exhibition Opening: Gloria Graham: Index Cards Redressed

“Combining ideas of temporality and the conceptual are of personal interest. Photographs of fire as a common human experience came to mind as preparatory drawings and notes went into a fireplace at the end of the year. I continued by working outdoors in natural daylight photographing the fleeting seconds of flame and words, while occasionally seeing the wind carry the papers away. Later discarded library index cards were used… the blank side for notes at first then the antiquated history printed on the fronts became of interest to use as well. As the color of shadows in the photographs changed from hour to hour it became apparent that blue shadows are an atmospheric phenomenon on cloudless days in New Mexico.” – Gloria Graham