Review of "Yesterday" in Antidote

 

“The subtle design decisions such as the warm, slightly toothy surface of the paper that hold the delicately focused photographs, physically draw you back in time to immerse yourself in Yesterday’s embrace. Once held there, Sal brings us back to acknowledge the present through her poetic expression of grief for the time we live in. Though we weep alongside Sal for our world and what we’ve lost, her photographs give us a reminder that we can face uncertainty to find beauty and strength in the “repeated refrains of nature”.”

Deborah Dawson, Antidote.

 

New Workshops!

Whilst I enjoy teaching online, it was such a joy to connect with students in person at Maine Media this past September. I was blown away by the work they made, as everyone brought such a great work ethic and supportive attitude to the week.

I will be teaching the Lyrical Photograph online again this fall with LACP, and with Nord Photography in the new year I’ll be returning to my Text & Image class, also online. You can find out more about those classes on my workshop page. I’m also really excited to be heading to Wisconsin to teach in person at the new Wild Rice Retreats next Fall. Can’t wait!

Page Gallery Show Coming Soon

 

My solo show at The Page Gallery in Camden is opening soon on October 21st. We will be opening the show in tandem with Camden’s artwalk that evening from 5pm to 7pm.

I will be launching my new book “Yesterday” which is accompanied by a series of photopolymer gravures, as well as other new work.

For those who can’t make it on the 21st, I’ll also be in the gallery on the following Saturday 1pm - 3pm.

Hope to see you there!

 

'Yesterday' Pre-orders Now Available

 

I am so excited to announce my new book “Yesterday” coming out in October with Datz Press.

Yesterday is a book of photographs made during the summer of 2020. Although much of the country was in the midst of the Covid 19 pandemic, on this remote island off the coast of Maine, we still felt free from much of the toll that Covid was taking. That summer represented a pause in time, a moment where life could feel normal, when we were still holding on to a world of yesterdays.

You can pre-order Yesterday here.

 

Memorial Day Open Studio!

 
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Please join me this Sunday, May 30th for a Studio Sale and open house.
I’ll be showing some new work and would love to gather and catch up! I’ve missed you all!

Sunday May 30th

2pm - 5pm

220 South St
Rockport

 

2021 Exhibitions

Well it finally feels like the world is starting to open up and I’m delighted to share some exhibition news.

upcoming exhibitions

June 10 2021 Page Gallery - Reverie
Aug 19 2021 Page Gallery - Materiality
Jan 7 2022 A Smith Gallery - Touchstones
July 7 2022 The Griffin Museum - Touchstones

Internal Dialog group show - TBD

I will be showing some new work at the Page Gallery in Rockport as part of their show Reverie, this show opens June 10 so stay tuned for the opening. Later in the summer I will also have work in their show Materiality which opens August 19th! A busy summer for sure.

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Poem for Paula

 
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It’s been seven days 
that have passed,
in this world 
without you.
And I’m still searching, 
for your face,
scrolling for memories
in the dark.

It was Fall when we began,
our stained hands,
tipping trays.
He’s cute you whispered,
a friendly aside.

The openings when
you showed up,
you always showed up,
always knew that
it mattered.

Later, Houston.
Turell at dawn,
Twombly by lunch,
Rothko in the afternoon.
A stolen day
Just for us..

Summer, binding books,
frustrated with the folding, 
with the exactness of the making.
You took what you needed, 
leaving the rest, 
making it yours
uniquely, brilliantly,
perfectly
yours.

New Orleans in December, .
A balm of dusty beignets 
on a cold afternoon.

Last month, of you,
the only mention —
It’s a drag, you said, 
but I’m doing okay,

I just get really tired.

And I believed you, 
about the okay part.

A shared vision —
my words colliding 
with your blues, ochres, silver. 
our expanding constellations 
on the page.

I’ll do it soon. I said.
Weeks passed.

I heard you, at the end, saying hi, 
at the end, I heard you.
Not knowing,
it was the last time.

And in my diary, 
my note, too late: 

 - poem for Paula.

 

Landfall Launch

I am so thrilled to announce the launch of my new limited edition book Landfall, which takes you on a journey through the islands off the coast of Maine in Penobscot Bay through my photographs and poems. I am also releasing a collector’s edition of the book that comes in a case made by Shelter Bookworks with a letterpress poem printed by the Brother of Elysium and a platinum-palladium print. Thank you to Kat Kiernan for the wonderful foreword.

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Touchstones on Lenscratch

Thank you so much to Aline Smithson and the team over at Lenscratch for writing about the project I’ve been working on in collaboration with my good friend Dawn Surratt. Dawn is a wonderful photographer and artist and it has been one of the unexpected pleasures from this strange and challenging year to get to know her. Our project Touchstones was envisioned as a call and response, where we create diptychs and write poetry inspired by the imagery. It is a meditation on connection in times of isolation.

You can read more about in this conversation between Dawn and I on Lenscratch.