#JoyceTenneson’s new series, ”Radiant Beings,” is her return, during the lockdown resulting from quarantine, to the world of #plants and #flowers. This time, her approach to this subject is decidedly different than her past work on #nature. Her new photographs are brought to life against a deep blue background. The color blue becomes, for Tenneson, a symbol of harmony and peace, encompassing the hues of the sky and the oceans. It also is a healing color that restores us in difficult times.
Many of her new pictures are monochromatic, with the flowers being converted to a diaphanous white. They appear almost as x-rays, in which we look behind their fragile exteriors. The flowers and flora become elemental forms that are often blurred by movement, as Tenneson manipulates them while the lens is open. Rather than photographing with a tight, sharp focus, she intentionally blurs the picture. She has also used a very narrow depth of field that causes the backgrounds to appear soft and billowy. Her interest is in flowers or pods as animated forms. She often layers them and lets them cascade unpredictably. There is a range, in this series, between the tight and loose organization of the elements. Many photographs feel improvisational, and if she uses color, it is one or two colors – used for effect. Often the brighter colors blur, and the flowers become partially abstract.
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Joyce Tenneson
Gerbera Daisy & Wildflowers
2021, printed later
Infused Dyes Sublimated on Aluminum
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The Immediate Image
April 23 – June 18
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View the exhibition via the link in our bio.
The space chile peppers are finally back on Earth! Grown over the course of 137 days aboard the International Space Station, the peppers completed their journey as they came home aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour crew ship ending Axiom Mission 1, the first private astronaut mission.
These chiles were grown as a part of the Plant Habitat-04 study, helping researchers learn how to grow this more complex crop in space. What scientists learn could help grow food to support astronauts on deep space missions to the Moon and Mars.
So far, results have already shown that the peppers’ growth was delayed by about two weeks on the space station and that the stems that connect to the flowers and fruit were not curved at all as seen on the ground, but instead were completely straight. Now that the chiles are on Earth, scientists are able to take an even closer look at the samples.
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