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Nicholson Bottles
Gaye Jackson
8/19/2009 - 9/6/2009
INDEXG PRINTROOM
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Artist statement
"Photography gives me the opportunity to be a tourist in other people’s realities and the impetus to explore places considered uninteresting, and sometimes out-of-bounds. As a tourist and a photographer, I collect photographs of and souvenirs from places that I visit.
Travels to an abandoned and overgrown logging town built in the 1920s, and visits to a refuse site located at the bottom of a lake near the town, have given me the pleasure of collecting dozens of old glass bottlesof varying sizes and shapes. It is these bottles that have inspired the series called The Nicholson Bottles.
The Nicholson Bottles is an ongoing series of colour photograms of bottles that once contained medicines, oils, and other domestic products. Like messages from the past, markings made over time by the action of water, sand and other organic matter are unique to each bottle. It's these organic markings that translate into colours and textures in the photograms.
In a time of digital perfection, I am drawn to working in the darkroom with an historical photographic process that has unpredictable results."
About the artist
Gaye Jackson has been active in the photographic community for over a decade and has had numerous exhibitions since 1994. She is presently Development Coordinator at Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography in Toronto. |
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INDEXG PRINTROOM
50 Gladstone Avenue
Toronto, M6J 3K6
Gallery Hours: Wed -Sun (1- 6pm)
416.535.6957
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