"Down by the Riverside"
Digital Photograph Exhibit by Fran Gardino
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by Renata von Tscharner of the Charles River Conservancy
A photo exhibition of several riverside locations, notably the Mystic & Charles River in a collection of 40+ river photos. Most are panoramas printed on canvas of the Charles River, and several are from other places around the world.
Down by the Riverside (inspired by the traditional song)
Gonna bring my lens to the golden banks
Down by the riverside
Down by the riverside
Down by the riverside
Gonna bring my lens to the golden banks
Down by the riverside
Gonna study war no more.
Gonna find them gems on the golden shores
Down by the riverside
Down by the riverside
Down by the riverside
Gonna find them gems on the golden shores
Down by the riverside
Gonna find them gems on the golden shores
Gonna study war no more.
- FG
The inspiration for these photos came from my childhood dreams of clean flowing water and endless exploratory journeys up and down the riverbanks, and evolved into my adult understanding of the importance of clean water, as well as the dreams of personal journeys and spiritual transitions in the passage of time as written into the great American character of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn.
As a related consequence, river history has become paramount to me and my “acts of photography” in that my river experiences are not alone. Others have sat under and will sit under the same riverside trees as me, and have had and will have similar eureka and epiphany moments by the banks for many generations. Battles have been waged and peace has flourished in these sacred waters and on these sacred grounds. Fortunately my photographic battles are mostly of a peaceful nature with time, light, digital mechanisms, the environment and the elements.
My multi-shot stitched piece panorama images are river-like in that my eyes, lens and the viewers’ eyes flow from one end of the photos to the other, observing and capturing time; the sometimes slow, sometimes raging, but seemingly endless passage of time. My bridge images capture many types of river crossings almost as a network connecting and traversing our clean flowing rivers of life. Although most of my photos are panoramas of the Charles River, there are also other river photos from other places around the world, like Japan, New Orleans, eastern and western Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, and it becomes apparent to me from shooting and observing these photos that my childhood and adult dreams are universal.
"Down by the Riverside"
February 6 to 28 --- Reception: Sunday, February 7, 2-4pm
Marblehead Arts Association, 8 Hooper Street Marblehead, MA 01970
MAA Open: Tues. - Sun. 12-5pm 781-631-2608 www.marbleheadarts.org
20% of sales donated to the Charles River Conservancy www.charlesriverconservancy.org
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