Witness

The time is 5AM on a late summer morning, at the change of seasons when the earth is warm and the air is cool and a fog has risen. These trees, standing tall for over a hundred years in the hills of New Hampshire, were destroyed by a freak storm in the spring of 2016. Witness, a series of images in both print and artist book, invite us to honor and remember, to enter in and be present to the wonders all around us. Trees bear witness, holding the mysteries of the world told through folklore and fantasy, science and study, revealing secrets and answers, offering comfort and healing. Past events and processes are recorded in the rings of growth, marking time, age and conditions. Not just metaphor, communities of trees take care of their own, nurturing and protecting by a symbiotic network rooted below the surface, spread by threads of fungi, connecting one tree root system to another. This connectivity is echoed through out the natural world.

Arches water color paper for binding, band and 3 fold cover wrap
8.25 x 14 inches, concertina binding
Belly band of paper with image detail
Nine images ©2012 printed on Epson Hot Press Natural paper
Archival cardboard box

Limited edition, excluding 2 artist books, 2 exhibition copies
Edition #1-2 $275.00
Edition #3-4 $300.00
Edition #5-6 $325.00
Edition #7-8 $350.00
Edition #8-10 $375.00

The Book of May Be

As if waking from a dream state, “The Book of May Be” explores malleability of memory. This diminutive body of work, nested in a slipcase and wrapper, is a series of 2 x 2 inch diptychs, each in conversation with its partner and in relation to the other snippets of image and memory. These images string along like an old film strip, collaged from bits and pieces of story, sounds, smells, places and people creating a visual tone poem. Though we think of life as linear, it is always in a flow state, shape-shifting as in a lucid dream where memory, time, and place converge out of sequence and clouded recall.  Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t, maybe it will be…

36 images, 2 in x 2 in accordion fold
Epson Ultra Premium Presentation Matte Paper
Four fold wrapper/slip case, various materials, by Linda Lembke
Archival cardboard box

Limited edition, excluding 2 artist books, 2 exhibition copies
Edition #1-2 @ $200
Edition #3-4 @ $250
Edition # 5 @ $275
Edition # 6 @ $350

Bio

Dawn Watson is an artist and activist. Her work examines the fragility of both the natural environment as well as our relationship to it and to each other. After twenty-five years as a dancer and choreographer, Watson transitioned to photography, finding affinity in the visual storytelling offered by both live performance and the captured image. She has exhibited her photographs and artist books throughout the United States including The Griffin Museum of Photography, Albrecht-Kemper Museum, Tilt Gallery, Tang Museum, and a solo exhibition at the Los Angeles Center for Photography.