Cara Lee Wade: Fossil Poetry
Cara Lee Wade uses the camera-less lumen process to create works that reference the symbiotic relationship between nature and humans. With Fossil Poetry, Wade’s images strike a balance of visual beauty and rhyme. Using traditional black-and-white paper, she transforms organic matter into shapes and colors that seem to explode off the page.
Due to the fragile, light-sensitive nature of the medium, Wade scans and prints these images onto archival paper to ensure their vibrancy.
Wade writes of her work:
“Wild plants choose the space in which they reside; they have memory, and they learn. Domesticated plants grow and thrive based on the care and attention they receive. Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer quantifies plants as ‘animated, living beings and as living beings they breathe, dance, and preen.’ These images explore how a plant’s sense [of] space and place directly enhanced my experience with place.”
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Camera-less Photo Workshop with Cara Lee Wade
October 26, 2024
10:00am – 12:00pm
Cara Lee Wade will lead a workshop creating lumen prints using darkroom photo paper, plants, and household organic materials.
Additional Information: Pre-registration is required through the Rosewood Arts Center website. The gallery is ADA accessible and wheelchair accessible. If you would like to request a modification, the request can be made to program staff at any front desk or by emailing our Compliance and Inclusion Manager at anna.breidenbach@ketteringoh.org
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Cara Lee Wade, Lumen Manor Quarantine 1, 2022. Lumen print, 16 x 24 inches. Courtesy of the artist
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Cara Lee Wade, Low Country Lumens II, 2022. Lumen print, 24 x 16 inches. Courtesy of the artist
Venue Details
Rosewood Arts Center
2655 Olson Dr
Kettering, OH 45420
(937) 296-0294
Mon–Thur 10am–9pm, Fri 10am–5pm, Sat 10am–3pm
Free to the Public
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