Collection: VINTAGE VISIONS Solo exhibition Danielle Beck
"VINTAGE VISIONS"
Photographer Danielle Beck
Solo exhibition in the First Floor Gallery
ON VIEW SEPT - NOV 2023
@danielle_beck_
www.daniellebeck.com
"Two weeks into our Covid lockdown in March 2020, my dad passed away rather unexpectedly. Without the distractions of everyday life, I was forced to face my grief head-on. Creating is where I could find solitude and sit with my grief, and it’s where my healing began. Feeling the strange new reality we were in and hurting so badly from the loss of my dad, my tears began to blur the flowers friends had sent me. I tried to simulate this effect using a camera and experimenting with long exposures. I felt my inner voice screaming YES! Keep going!
I love the imperfect, unpredictable nature of this process and the resulting images. It has helped me throw my old perfectionist tendencies to the wind and tap into my inner voice and how it guides me. I create as a form of meditation and mindfulness and find it very therapeutic. It is like a dance with my camera. If I’m feeling off, I am able to recenter myself by creating.
I try to evoke emotions and feelings through my pieces and to convey a deeper message. I chose to frame each piece in an antique frame I sourced myself. It was another necessary touch to truly showcase how each piece feels. I hope that others can find an escape through my work and feel joy, peace, beauty, mystery, nostalgia, curiosity, or something else entirely.
Vintage Visions came together as the result of listening to my inner voice and those little nudges I was feeling, finding quiet, being still, and being open to what energy wanted to flow through me."