I suppose "sweeping" would be the word to describe it.
Last week, Cally Iden's photographs made their way to the Temple Gallery for her MFA Thesis Show. Walking through her space you couldn't help but be pulled by the work's grandeur presentation. Elevated above the birds eye, Iden's photographs take on a topographical viewpoint giving each viewer permission to get up close and evaluate every little detail. What we find are markers, holes, shadows, vessels, and most importantly color. Rarely am I on the side of color when it comes to photography especially with it being constantly misused, but Cally repels my preconceptions by giving color its habitual needs.
By placing the works on the ground, we begin to feel the distance. Not only the specific distance between the camera and it's plane of view but also between ourselves in relation to the world we inhabit. Im not describing the deprivation between nature and human beings, but rather the isolation I felt looking into the vastness of the earth's surfaces. There is an acuteness presented here, that extends further beyond the socio-environmental claw giving us a sweeping sensation of weightlessness.
Congrats Cally!
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