Eroded Beauty: a retrospective by tracey lind

EXTENDED through November 1, 2020 by appointment

Hear the WCPN story about Tracey’s work

ARTIST’S STATEMENT:

Many years ago, I picked up a camera to look for God in an impoverished, old mill city where I was serving as an Episcopal priest. I discovered God in the stark beauty of industrial development and urban destruction. I encountered the creative Spirit in the elements of earth, wind, fire and water. I experienced the tension of the Divine in fences, walls, ropes and wires. I found the Holy One in the abstract and the concrete.

Through my camera lens, I developed a spiritual practice. The making of photographs has been, and continues to be, a form of prayer and meditation.

I have been making photographs since the nineties, but I stopped printing in 2006 - life got too busy. This past January, I decided to review over three decades of digital images. I was excited by what I found in my computer files. I was particularly intrigued by the beauty of eroding rust, concrete, fabric and wood. Then came COVID-19.

Like many of you, I have been viewing the world through the lens of the pandemic. I have also been considering these days as a theologian, searching for the spiritual meaning of this virus. As an individual living with FTD - a form of early onset dementia - I’ve been experiencing this crisis through the eroding frontal and temporal lobes of my brain. In short, I have been thinking about the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of erosion - the destruction of the familiar and the secure, and the birthing and creation of some yet unknown.

As I reviewed three decades of digital photos during my quarantine, I began to see the story of COVID unfold. Hence, I have titled the images as they spoke to me in the early spring. Perhaps, you will see something very different in my pictures.

Tracey Lind
September 2020
traceylind@mac.com

All images—signed, dated and printed on archival paper—are available for purchase in the following sizes:

• 8 x 12 $475
• 12 x 18 $675
• 20 x 30 $975

A signed limited edition 23” x 35” canvas print of American Beauty (shown above), mounted to aluminum and elegantly floating in a rustic white frame selected by the artist is available for $10,000.