We met during your book signing at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, USA. Ellen Carey, the contemporary American lens based artist of the Polaroid Pull and Struck By Light Photogram artworks requested that I ask for your inscription on her copy of your book; at the time she was in Lacock Abbey, Lacock, Wiltshire, installing her Struck By Light exhibition, curated by Andrew Cochrane, and seen by 220,000 visitors during the year of its showing! Since 2009, I have been looking at this Wadsworth Atheneum"s Matrix artist's Pulls and Photograms, in person, notably during her Matrix solo exhibition, a group exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and in her studio. (I could send you the PDF of my essay, "The Black Swans of Ellen Carey: Of Necessary Poetic Realities" for its comprehensive coverage of her art up to 2014; currently, another essay on her art through 2024, is near completion.) Each essay includes a poem as a most real way to write of (and to) her artworks. Ellen Carey's pictures are deserving of far greater attention than received to date, for many reasons, chief amongst these being the creation of, I count four, new photo-objects for the field of photography, and the fact that Ellen Carey, over four decades, continues to experiment in this burgeoning field as artist, scholar, teacher, and yes, like William Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of photography from Lacock Abbey, herself an inventor, and like Anna Atkins, another countrywoman, like yourself, who, according to Ellen Carey's rigorous research, was the first woman in color and the first in word art, with her creation of the cyanotype, as Carey is herself also an original in contemporary color, having discovered new colors with her use of photographic color theory, that is, RGBYMC.
Dear Katie, The sound engineer had you and your last guest speaking so breathlessly fast that I could not enjoy the broadcast. It gave me great anxiety like being at a car or horse race. I know maximum content is important, but I had to close down listening. Please try it a little slower. Thank you, Livia Stein a dedicated artist and listener and admirer.
Dear Katy Hessel,
We met during your book signing at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, USA. Ellen Carey, the contemporary American lens based artist of the Polaroid Pull and Struck By Light Photogram artworks requested that I ask for your inscription on her copy of your book; at the time she was in Lacock Abbey, Lacock, Wiltshire, installing her Struck By Light exhibition, curated by Andrew Cochrane, and seen by 220,000 visitors during the year of its showing! Since 2009, I have been looking at this Wadsworth Atheneum"s Matrix artist's Pulls and Photograms, in person, notably during her Matrix solo exhibition, a group exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and in her studio. (I could send you the PDF of my essay, "The Black Swans of Ellen Carey: Of Necessary Poetic Realities" for its comprehensive coverage of her art up to 2014; currently, another essay on her art through 2024, is near completion.) Each essay includes a poem as a most real way to write of (and to) her artworks. Ellen Carey's pictures are deserving of far greater attention than received to date, for many reasons, chief amongst these being the creation of, I count four, new photo-objects for the field of photography, and the fact that Ellen Carey, over four decades, continues to experiment in this burgeoning field as artist, scholar, teacher, and yes, like William Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of photography from Lacock Abbey, herself an inventor, and like Anna Atkins, another countrywoman, like yourself, who, according to Ellen Carey's rigorous research, was the first woman in color and the first in word art, with her creation of the cyanotype, as Carey is herself also an original in contemporary color, having discovered new colors with her use of photographic color theory, that is, RGBYMC.
Respectfully,
Donna Fleischer, Poet
dfleischer8@gmail.com
Dear Katie, The sound engineer had you and your last guest speaking so breathlessly fast that I could not enjoy the broadcast. It gave me great anxiety like being at a car or horse race. I know maximum content is important, but I had to close down listening. Please try it a little slower. Thank you, Livia Stein a dedicated artist and listener and admirer.