Of Home & Place

A JAMES R. SALOMON MEMORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT

Peter Shellenberger
Jon Pelletier
Barbara Bosworth
Shoshanna White
Todd Watts
Kelly Anderson Staley
Jeffery C. Becton
James Mullen
Cole Caswell
Lin Lisberger
Jodi Colella
Gary Green
Barry Morse
Chris Schiavo
Suzanne Theodora White
Jean Noon
Eugene Cole
Emily Belz
Megan Jones
Joan Fitzsimmons

The sense of place, as the phrase suggests, does indeed emerge from the senses. The land, and even the spirit of the place, can be experienced kinetically, or kinesthetically, as well as visually. If one has been raised in a place, its textures and sensations, its smells and sounds, are recalled as they felt to a child’s, adolescent’s, adult’s body. Even if ones history there is short, a place can still be felt as an extension of the body, especially the walking body, passing through and becoming part of the landscape. - Lucy Lippard

Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spacial perception together. The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood. - Rebecca Solnit