 A
retrospection using black and white photographs in which the artist’s
imagination depicts what it must have been like for women living in that
bygone era of the Tidewater Region, with all its shifting moods and
constant uncertainties. The tides of life that flow with
nature are her only companion and solace.
The
photographs depict a private moment for a woman standing alone caught up
in her own thoughts and feelings, absorbed and contemplative. What
is she thinking? What is her predicament? We must use our own
imagination.
The
tidewater region surrounding the Merrimac River Basin with it’s Barrier
Island, flats, tributaries, beaches, sand dunes, marshes and uplands has
always been a source of limitless inspiration to others and me.
The
New England spirit is embodied in the lives of the local farmers, hunters
and fishermen, especially in the women who helped shape the region’s
destiny. Nature’s grandeur must have been a consolation and
companion on her solitary walks, which helped feed her spirit with wonder,
curiosity and awe while apprehensive and ever conscious of the uncertainties
of coastal life.
The
stark weather-beaten, desolate and beautiful landscape must have contributed
to their rigorous spirit, self-reliance, and practical sensibility while
forging an enduring and lasting bond with this tidewater region.
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