Exhibitions

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How do we leave our mark? Is it our bones, our words, our image, our legacy? Does it last? GHOSTS considers the curious in context, presenting captured moments that direct us to question, and unknown stories packed tight in precise symbols meant to last. 

Carla Vaughan’s images deliver precise fleeting moments in larger contexts (like a snowy day), but also consider individual figures, alone or moving in concert, that bring forth even more questions. She says “I am inspired by the anonymity of people, whose stories I don’t know, but want to know. I am drawn to subjects who are alone, quiet silhouettes in solitude.” In Vaughan’s Familiar Strangers, these anonymous 
individuals are caught in a unique shared moment. They look like choreographed zombies moving together 
in a dream. Because we may never know what is really occurring in an image of life, she adds, “Whether the scene is present on the city street or placed in a frame, the viewer will complete the story.”

It’s common to experience people “in passing” like an object in our path, “ships in the night,” and one of many. In regards to living people moving through time and those who have “passed,” everyone plays both roles; the anonymous somebody, and the real somebody with a full story, the story that remains a mystery. If only ghosts could talk! 

Ed Snyder says, “There is something very intimate about being in a snow-covered cemetery by yourself. Leaving one’s footsteps in silence serves as a reminder of the shared human experience of mourning, remembrance, and the fact that life does, in fact, go on.” Snyder’s images contemplate larger complex stories reduced to small symbols with simple clues. Even if the stories are forgotten, there is a marker to remind us there were some.

As physical markers go, the cemetery is a shared context; the gravestone a symbol of an individual that is far more complex and meaningful than the indicator could ever express. Likewise, a unique still image is the embodiment of a moment in context, an elaborate multifaceted mark, frozen in time.