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Atelier 32 | Kevin Belanger

Posted on September 23, 2020

In today’s view of our opens in a new windowAtelier 32 artists, we look at the work of Kevin Belanger. His series, A Long Desire, was inspired by our current pandemic and its new reality. After retiring from the Postal Service into a world of anxiety and longing, Belanger worked during the Atelier to visualize this new reality by crafting a project that helps him cope with our new normal. 

Which of these images was the impetus for this series? How did it inform how you completed the series?

kb - long night 1

© Kevin Belanger – Flight

The one of the family which I titled “Flight”for the exhibition was seminal. It lead me to shoot for empty or “safe” spaces. The church is titled “Sanctuary”. I suppose the family was”fleeing” to the imagined safety of the city, “A Long Desire”. Or a safety that was past and only to be hoped for.

 

How the Atelier has helped you hone your vision as an artist?

kb - skyline

© Kevin Belanger – A Long Desire

The greatest benefit of the Atelier was in sharpening my focus as I discovered my project. The exercises were extremely beneficial when it came to telling a story and establishing and crafting a series.

 

 

kb - church

© Kevin Belanger – Sanctuary

Tell us what is next for you creatively.

I plan to take the Atelier in the, I hope, not too distant future and perhaps continue my photographic education. 

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Amy Rindskopf's Terra Novus

At the market, I pick each one up, pulled in by the shapes as they sit together, waiting. I feel its heft in my hand, enjoy the textures of the skin or peel, and begin to look closer and closer. The patterns on each individual surface marks them as distinct. I push further still, discovering territory unseen by the casual observer, a new land. I am like a satellite orbiting a distant planet, taking the first-ever images of this newly envisioned place.

This project started as an homage to Edward Weston’s Pepper No. 30 (I am, ironically, allergic to peppers). As I looked for my subject matter at the market, I found that I wasn’t drawn to just one single fruit or vegetable. There were so many choices, appealing to both hand and eye. I decided to print in black and white to help make the images visually more about the shapes, and not about guessing which fruit is smoothest, which vegetable is greenest.

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Artistic Purpose/Intent

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Photography has been paramount in my personal path of healing from disease and

connecting with consciousness. The intention of my work is to overcome the limits of the

mind and engage the spirit. Like a Zen koan, my images are paradoxes hidden in plain

sight. They are intended to be sat with meditatively, eventually revealing greater truths

about the world and about one’s self.

 

John Chervinsky’s photography is a testament to pensive work without simple answers;

it connects by encouraging discovery and altering perspectives. I see this scholarship

as a potential to continue his legacy and evolve the boundaries of how photography can

explore the human condition.

 

Growing my artistic skill and voice as an emerging photographer is critical, I see this as

a rare opportunity to strengthen my foundation and transition towards an established

and influential future. I am thirsty to engage viewers and provide a transformative

experience through my work. I have been honing my current project and building a plan

for its complete execution. The incredible Griffin community of mentors and the

generous funds would be instrumental for its development. I deeply recognize the

hallmark moment this could be for the introduction of the work. Thank you for providing

this incredible opportunity for budding visions and artists that know they have something

greater to share with the world.

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