Leah Mae Dyjak
Thin Lines
This
body of work began several years ago after the passing of a close friend .In search of solace I
began exploring an abandoned factory. I found comfort in the silence and vast open spaces of the
warehouse, where translucent plastic was hung to keep the floor from rotting.
Even before I experienced the loss of loved ones or personal health, I was
interested in our mortality and human fragility. One becomes marked with
experience through out life, whether these marks are subtle or profound, we
carry them in what we do and who we are. It is in those intangible marks that I
am able to translate idea with gesture in my photographs. I shoot what I
believe to be the transitional space between two worlds, where spirit or energy
may cross into visual reality. The collaboration between person and landscape
provides me with a voice in something grand and unchangeable, such as nature
and our own momentary existence.
These gestures are the
manifestation of building and creating conversation between personal experience and the
physical mark I put in the world.
It is in this process I am able to meditate with one of our universal
connections as living beings as it relates human condition.