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An incantation to summon the spectre of a rose Digital photography composite |
Artist Statement: As we settled into quarantine I found myself taking a walk with my camera in my neighborhood almost every day. This was my only form of exercise and my only escape from the house. After a while I grew weary of walking in the same old places, but the beauty of the flowers as they came into bloom and died away never got old. The primary photo in this composite is a single red rose. Back at my computer it called to me to give it a world of its own. The title is a quote from T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets," a favorite which had I had generous time to delve into. Bio: Catherine D. Kerr caught the camera bug early on, when her parents gave her a Brownie Starlet camera as a gift for her seventh birthday. Her first published photographs were taken to illustrate her work as a newspaper reporter and freelance writer. As she followed a career path that led to ordained ministry in the Episcopal Church, however, her purpose evolved from telling what happened to telling what matters. She is especially interested in the way light can be a metaphor for grace or presence, and in particular in the way it breaks in and illuminates, transforming the ordinary to be extraordinary. In recent years she has focused on photography as a spiritual discipline, and she's written about and led quiet days on photography as a contemplative spiritual practice. Her work has been selected for display in a number of juried photography exhibitions, including most recently the 2021 Odyssey show sponsored by the Pennsylvania Center for Photography in Bucks County, PA, and a show titled "Essential Work 2020: A Community Portrait" this summer at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA. |
