Caroline Savage, Ice, Ice Cyanotypes, Lumen prints, 2024, 10 pages, Concertina book, 3 x 15 inches

I have lived in Port Said Egypt, Karachi, Pakistan; London, England; Arlington, Virginia, Dobbs Ferry, New York and San Francisco and Pacifica, California, and Carlisle, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Currently, I live in Portland, Maine. I travel by airplane, train, car, ship and foot across landscapes, terrains always in flux, our transient geography. This shaped my interest in noticing and experiencing the landscapes as a voyeur and flaneur of the transitory world. Light, time, space, chemical and physical processes became my artistic tool. Moving from the precision of photographers Ansel Adams, Aaron Siskind and Minor White, the romance of Imogen Cunningham, Linda Conner to the experimentation of filmmakers Marie Menken, Hollis Frampton, Michael Snow and Malcolm Le Grice, I honed my craft at the San Francisco Art Institute, immersed in possibilities of painting with light, time and motion as still and moving pictures, through historical processes (cyanotype, gum printing, hand coloring, analog and digital processes.) Musicians John Cage and Steve Reich introduced me to chance, strategy and synchronicity to discover and reveal the harmonic sound, visual patterns in nature. - C.S