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KIRSTEN HOVING
(Photo credit: Kirsten Hoving, Fallen Angel)
Photographer Kirsten Hoving’s work has appeared in recent Center exhibitions Strange Beauty and Black & White. Hoving uses photography as a means to express rather than document her experiences.
She writes:
For over a century, our rural Vermont community has celebrated summer’s bounty with a county fair. Zucchini win prizes, white-clad teens show prize dairy cows, and at night the midway lights brighten the sky. In the past, the edge of the midway was the site of ‘girlie shows’ and strip-tease acts. Today, the fallen women can be found bungee-jumping.
See more of Kirsten’s work at www.kirstenhovingphotographs.com
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(Photo credit: Kirsten Hoving, Earth’s Atmosphere from the series Night Wanderers)
Kirsten Hoving typifies her photographic work as “strange and sometimes wonderful.” Hoving’s Night Wanderers series – in which she examines frozen worlds of her own devising – is imbued with both.
She writes:
Night Wanderers is a series of photographs envisioning the cosmos. I photograph objects and nineteenth-century photographs frozen in or placed under disks of ice to create the feeling of galactic swirls of stars, galaxies and spiral nebulae.
For this series, I have been influenced not by the work of other photographers, but by the collage and assemblage art of the American artist Joseph Cornell… His working method encouraged me to take risks, to experiment, and to be willing to destroy one object to create another. He also taught me to appreciate the stars.
Check out more of Kirsten’s work and the rest of the Night Wanderers series at www.kirstenhovingphotographs.com
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(Photo credit: Kirsten Hoving, Shouldering from the series Roots and Wings)
Intending to supplement her understanding of photographic history, distinguished art historian Kirsten Hoving picked up a camera. Her series Roots and Wings locates the dream state beneath the surface of domestic life.
She writes:
Through photography, I see my world in ways that often astonish me. Roots and Wings is a meditation on motherhood, love, and loss–specifically about the pride and pain of seeing my children embarking on their own lives as grown women.
Head over to www.kirstenhovingphotographs.com to see more of Kirsten’s work.
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