Blue Moon series, Blue Moon 248, 2023, Cyanotype, 11" w. x 14" h., $750 each

While evidencing a minimalist abstraction, my Blue Moons are grounded in a reality, my reality. Feeling a bit overwhelmed by the accumulation of negatives, both silver and digital, that I may never have the time to print, inspired by a ‘throw-away’ photogram that began to hold magic for me, I commenced. I never knew what a blue moon was. I loved the song. I knew the phrase, “Once in a blue moon”. A few years ago, a blue moon occurred, a rare occurrence, two full moons in one month. The media gave a full explanation. I realized that my photograms of simple bowls of yogurt, looked like moons. They could be blue moons! There is no great theory to this work. There is an attraction to the simplicity of the process and the magic of imagination. The images in the  Blue Moon series are all unique, hand-toned photograms on gelatin silver paper. As a true Futurist of the past, Sun Ra, once said, “Space is the Place.” - J. F.

Joan Fitzsimmons is a fine art photographer whose constructed digital images blur the line between painting and photography, drawing upon the polarities of beauty and decay, the natural and the human-made. Her compositions begin with originally sourced imagery selected from photographs she shoots in the studio or on location near her homes in Maine and Israel and on her travels. The images exist in an abstract realm that unites intentional creation with a fluid, intuitive approach to composition and color.