Kaitlyn Danielson, "10.25.18 #9"
2021
Archival pigment print
ARTIST STATEMENT
Time pushes me towards the irrefutable fate of its course; I teeter between defiance and surrender. Through photography I confront what Susan Sontag described as “time’s relentless melt”, exposing the invisible elements of life’s impermanence. My artistic practice is rooted in historic photographic processes, where I rely on the fundamental ingredients of silver and light to produce an image. The sensitive and sometimes unpredictable nature of these processes mirrors the vulnerability of life that I grapple with in my work. Finding solace in visualizing life’s ephemerality, my photographs become a tangible, permanent record of my encounter with mortality.
In Of Breath and Dust, I seize the moment of my fading breath and directly address the legacy of a photograph as “memento mori”. The images are printed as ambrotypes, a 19th century process named from the Greek ambrotos, meaning “immortal”. Multiple breaths are balanced precariously on each other in sculptural forms; the notion of the photograph as a permanent object, balanced precariously on the temporal nature of the body.
Clung to glass or paper through light and silver of the colloidal and lumen print process, the printed breath becomes a nebulous glow, an organism, a cosmic landscape.
ARTIST BIO
Kaitlyn Danielson is an artist based in Narrowsburg, New York. She holds a BFA in Photography & Video from the School of Visual Arts, where she was awarded the Alumni Scholarship and the Rhodes Family Award for Outstanding Students. In 2018, her work won the Abstract/ Mixed Media category of PDN’s The Curator competition. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and featured on platforms such as Musee’ Magazine, PDN magazine, Lenscratch, and Brutjournal.
Kaitlyn’s practice is rooted in historic photographic processes where she relies on the fundamental ingredients of silver and light to produce an image. The sensitive and sometimes unpredictable nature of these processes mirrors the vulnerability of life that she grapples with in her work. Finding solace in visualizing life’s ephemerality, her photographs become a tangible, permanent record of her encounter with mortality.
2021
Archival pigment print
ARTIST STATEMENT
Time pushes me towards the irrefutable fate of its course; I teeter between defiance and surrender. Through photography I confront what Susan Sontag described as “time’s relentless melt”, exposing the invisible elements of life’s impermanence. My artistic practice is rooted in historic photographic processes, where I rely on the fundamental ingredients of silver and light to produce an image. The sensitive and sometimes unpredictable nature of these processes mirrors the vulnerability of life that I grapple with in my work. Finding solace in visualizing life’s ephemerality, my photographs become a tangible, permanent record of my encounter with mortality.
In Of Breath and Dust, I seize the moment of my fading breath and directly address the legacy of a photograph as “memento mori”. The images are printed as ambrotypes, a 19th century process named from the Greek ambrotos, meaning “immortal”. Multiple breaths are balanced precariously on each other in sculptural forms; the notion of the photograph as a permanent object, balanced precariously on the temporal nature of the body.
Clung to glass or paper through light and silver of the colloidal and lumen print process, the printed breath becomes a nebulous glow, an organism, a cosmic landscape.
ARTIST BIO
Kaitlyn Danielson is an artist based in Narrowsburg, New York. She holds a BFA in Photography & Video from the School of Visual Arts, where she was awarded the Alumni Scholarship and the Rhodes Family Award for Outstanding Students. In 2018, her work won the Abstract/ Mixed Media category of PDN’s The Curator competition. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and featured on platforms such as Musee’ Magazine, PDN magazine, Lenscratch, and Brutjournal.
Kaitlyn’s practice is rooted in historic photographic processes where she relies on the fundamental ingredients of silver and light to produce an image. The sensitive and sometimes unpredictable nature of these processes mirrors the vulnerability of life that she grapples with in her work. Finding solace in visualizing life’s ephemerality, her photographs become a tangible, permanent record of her encounter with mortality.
2021
Archival pigment print
ARTIST STATEMENT
Time pushes me towards the irrefutable fate of its course; I teeter between defiance and surrender. Through photography I confront what Susan Sontag described as “time’s relentless melt”, exposing the invisible elements of life’s impermanence. My artistic practice is rooted in historic photographic processes, where I rely on the fundamental ingredients of silver and light to produce an image. The sensitive and sometimes unpredictable nature of these processes mirrors the vulnerability of life that I grapple with in my work. Finding solace in visualizing life’s ephemerality, my photographs become a tangible, permanent record of my encounter with mortality.
In Of Breath and Dust, I seize the moment of my fading breath and directly address the legacy of a photograph as “memento mori”. The images are printed as ambrotypes, a 19th century process named from the Greek ambrotos, meaning “immortal”. Multiple breaths are balanced precariously on each other in sculptural forms; the notion of the photograph as a permanent object, balanced precariously on the temporal nature of the body.
Clung to glass or paper through light and silver of the colloidal and lumen print process, the printed breath becomes a nebulous glow, an organism, a cosmic landscape.
ARTIST BIO
Kaitlyn Danielson is an artist based in Narrowsburg, New York. She holds a BFA in Photography & Video from the School of Visual Arts, where she was awarded the Alumni Scholarship and the Rhodes Family Award for Outstanding Students. In 2018, her work won the Abstract/ Mixed Media category of PDN’s The Curator competition. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and featured on platforms such as Musee’ Magazine, PDN magazine, Lenscratch, and Brutjournal.
Kaitlyn’s practice is rooted in historic photographic processes where she relies on the fundamental ingredients of silver and light to produce an image. The sensitive and sometimes unpredictable nature of these processes mirrors the vulnerability of life that she grapples with in her work. Finding solace in visualizing life’s ephemerality, her photographs become a tangible, permanent record of her encounter with mortality.