1/10, 2005, cyanotype and digital print, 17 x 20 inches

Part of my “Sky is Dreaming” series. This CyanoDigital Hybrid disrupts the actual river landscape, creating a vision of the dark sky, where the tiny flowers become large configurations in the dark sky to become a record of an imaginary, actively dreaming sky. These are new constellations and star configurations, embedding nature on Earth into the sky, enabling new stories and journeys into deep space. The experience is at once impossible but coalesces into a possible new experience. Julia Wolfe is a contemporary choral, orchestral, oratorio composer, co-founder of “Bang on a Can.” She took a chance on a class, “Creative Musicianship” where she entered the realm of making/building music, never looking back. Her curiosity, adventurous spirit, and drive resonates with my creative directions.

Moving from the precision of photographers Ansel Adams, Aaron Siskind and Minor White, the romance of Imogen Cunningham to the experimentation of filmmakers Marie Menken, Hollis Frampton and Malcolm Le Grice,I honed my craft at the San Francisco Art Institute, immersed in possibilities of painting with light, time and motion. Musicians John Cage and Steve Reich introduced me to chance, strategy and synchronicity to discover and reveal the harmonic sound patterns in nature. I make landscapes that are based on formal associations of interconnected moving light, line, and color which open a unique poetic vein. Multilayered images arise in which the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality is questioned. By applying abstraction allowing the camera to record light and movement, I investigate the dynamics of landscape. Rather than presenting a factual reality, I create sequences which reveal an inseparable relationship between motion, light and space. By questioning the visual concept of movement, I formalize the coincidental and emphasize the aleatory process of color and light composition. - Caroline Savage

“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.” - C.S.