May 2 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Wyoming Union Lower Level
Contact:
Phone
307-766-6340
Email:
fal@uwyo.edu

Additional Information

“In The Distance”, presented by 7220 Entertainment, will exhibit Monday, April 17 – Thursday, May 4 in the University of Wyoming Gallery 234. A reception will be held on Tuesday, May 2 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. This event is free and open to public.

“I am guided by the feelings that scream in all caps from the center of my heart. Since that has a lot to do with love, sometimes that sends me looking for it halfway around the world. Last May I went to Taipei, Taiwan to explore, capture, and feel my heart connected to its other half. From this journey I developed a series of photos that merge together places thousands of miles apart, using film photography and double exposure to envision a real space for a relationship that otherwise existed in digital ephemera (texts, likes, snaps, Skype dates). These are photos taken there and here - my most familiar retreats in Laramie veiled under and over by the sensuous elements of Taipei. I thought film was the counterbalance to falling in love via pixels. It could travel over the oceans with me to give the void in between our location a sense of materiality, a realness. Where the face and the cities of my beloved would reveal themselves like a vivid dream in the negatives, and my memories of Taipei would flow freely just by walking down a familiar street back home. I found double exposure to be a fantastic method for building bridges in a dreamworld” (Holly Wood).

“When that love ended, the process continued to ask me to re-imagine place and comfort. I needed to create satisfaction in the world around me. To find a happy place. With cats. With string lights in the trees that grow bright as the day fades. Where the long and radiant Wyoming summer sunsets never end. Sometimes these are sumptuous enough to capture peacefully with cottonwoods and hollyhocks as a frame. Other times I flung them across buildings and the Denver skyline. Such is the experience of love, right? Unpredictably surreal, serene, and turbulent. As a canvas for emotional change, film gave me the necessary space to detach from and recombine every element of my environment” (Holly Wood).

“Love and place are powerful influences on my work. When love creates a narrative, my goal as a photographer is to compose a setting. To explore the mood and attribute its color, texture, and sound through a lens. I want the viewer to hear it, and sense it on their skin. In this series I ask the viewer to nestle into each layer they see, look for a place to rest, and take a breath of air from somewhere familiar and somewhere far away” (Holly Wood).
Gallery 234 is located in the lower level of the Wyoming Union.

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Individuals needing assistance to attend events should contact the Campus Activities Center at (307) 766-6340.