Linda Briskin
Sea Change (ii), 2021
Linda Briskin is a writer and fine art photographer. She is intrigued by the juxtaposition of objects and reflections, the permeability between the remembered and the imagined, and the ambiguities in what we choose to see. She is fascinated by the fluidity between the natural and the constructed. Her focus, then, is often on inventing images rather than capturing them. In 2021, her photographs were chosen for the Herstory exhibit sponsored by Manhattan Arts International, the International Photography Exhibition at Viewpoint Gallery in Nova Scotia, and the Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition at the Orillia Museum.
Artist Statement
The series Sea Change visualizes the inherent potential for metamorphosis. Below the surface of each image, and of life itself, complexities are concealed and contradictions buried. Sea Change liberates these alternative realities through various forms of photo manipulation. Each transformation—a kind of shape shifting—is unique and unpredictable, yet compelling and intriguing.
The term ‘sea change’ was first used in Shakespeare's play The Tempest in 1610:
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
In this series, the shift from the original photo to the transformed one, has also produced, hopefully, something “rich and strange.”
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Contact: lbriskin@yorku.ca
Website: lindabriskinphotography.com
May 18th - June 5th, 2022
Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw St, Toronto
Hallway Galleries, 2nd and 3rd floors
Artist Talk and Tour
May 21, 2022
1pm: 3rd floor