Kelly Ording: Sungazing by
Kelly Ording’s Sungazing draws the viewer into a vivid realm where saturated colors and delicate lines capture fleeting moments that shape the passage of time. Ording’s minimalist paintings communicate through a visual language of vivid hues and rhythmic forms, inviting us to clear our minds of clutter and embrace an alternative realm beyond words. The works in this series are inspired by Ording’s practice of sungazing, a meditative ritual in which she stands outside and gazes toward the sun to absorb its radiant energy. For Ording, the slow, methodical act of painting becomes an extension of this practice, transforming each piece into a contemplative object that suspends time and grounds us in the present moment.
Nick Brandt: THE ECHO OF OUR VOICES
The portraits in this series feature Syrian refugee families posed together on boxes against the vast empty deserts in southern Jordan. Forced to relocate multiple times a year in search of destinations with adequate rainfall, the faces of the individuals express resolute fortitude and solidarity. While the photographs monumentalize a loss of place by elevating the refugees on a proverbial pedestal, Brandt demonstrates that it is the connections we forge combined with a shared sense of humanity that provides the strength to rise.
THE ECHO OF OUR VOICES is the fourth chapter of The Day May Break, Nick Brandt’s ongoing series focusing on those impacted by environmental destruction and climate change. Brandt’s unique approach to climate-conscious photography celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the stabilizing effects of community in the face of adversity.
María Ossadón Recart: Reconstruction
Through ink drawing, María Ossandón reworks the miniature scenes or landscapes found in each broken piece of ceramics, linking universal memories with personal experiences, thus creating an almost archival representation—while still being subjective—of these landscapes.
Just as memory is witness of a singular moment or a scene, of a break in linearity, of a sound or a smell that affects perception, the body that creates or guards it is always selective, it never reaches totality. The archaeologist who dedicates himself to recovering or reuniting these fragments reconstructs new scenes, which emerge from the context that gave rise and meaning to these fragments, now floating in the spaces of science or museums.
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From María Ossadón Recart’s Reconstruction
Light in the Dark
by Kelly Ording
acrylic on hand-dyed paper
30” x 45”
Turn Two
by Kelly Ording
acrylic on paper
33” x 25” inches framed
Laila and the Women
by Nick Brandt
archival photograph
Women with Sleeping Children
by Nick Brandt
archival photograph
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