Lorraine Field: Alas, A Series Of Visual Laments
1.Lorraine Field: Alas, A series of Visual Laments is the striking 21 piece temporary exhibition taking place in Saint Mary's University’s 2 room gallery space. Curated by Robin Metcalfe, this show features the photo prints of Lorraine Field. The prints are framed with a grey wooden trim that compliment the earthy themes prevented in the exhibition. This show is on view from January 14th - March 5th 2017 (SMU Art Gallery Website,Feb 22nd 2017)
2. Alas is the a visual exploration of a widow’s sadness and grieving coupled with the remembrance of a lost loved one and the uprooting realization that we do not live forever. This exhibition features two different series by Field; A Certain Slant of Light and Wife to Widow. In these different series, …show more content…
All of the works included in this exhibition are prints of photographs taken by Lorraine Field. These pieces are categorized into self portraits, portraitures of landscapes and interior. Internal Differences 1 And 2 are the only pieces in this exhibition that depict a scenario indoors. Internal Differences 1 features Roger Field’s arm chair; internal Difference 2 features the bed Roger Field and Lorraine Field shared. The works Levelled Years 1-4 is another series of self portraits Fields took through the first year after the death of her husband (2013) to four years later. (2017) Continuing with the landscape theme, Lorraine poses herself laying on her side facing the sea, away from the camera. Lorraine wears all black, referencing back to the representative meaning she has already established in previous works discussed. As the viewer travels through the portraits and subsequently the years post mortem, Lorraine sheds her clothing as she gets closer to the sea. This is a metaphor; the clothing represents her withdrawal from the world and the new experience of being on her own for the first time in a very long time. The clothing represents her discomfort with this new world she now lives in. As the clothing becomes more and more scarce, it's a reflection of how Field is becoming more and more comfortable with herself emotionally. Year after year, Lorraine's pose gets more and more comfortable. From curled into a ball on a table the first year, to comfortably lounging in the fourth. No doubt Lorraine is exploring her general feelings about life and death as each year passes since the death of her husband. “Photography has long been associated with death.” ( Lorraine Field, Alas Artist Statement, 2017). Images can be used to create and represent knowledge of a subject. In Alas Field uses the experience of a death of a loved to create a visual narrative that engages the viewer. “The photograph is a central tool in establishing difference. In systems of
2. Alas is the a visual exploration of a widow’s sadness and grieving coupled with the remembrance of a lost loved one and the uprooting realization that we do not live forever. This exhibition features two different series by Field; A Certain Slant of Light and Wife to Widow. In these different series, …show more content…
All of the works included in this exhibition are prints of photographs taken by Lorraine Field. These pieces are categorized into self portraits, portraitures of landscapes and interior. Internal Differences 1 And 2 are the only pieces in this exhibition that depict a scenario indoors. Internal Differences 1 features Roger Field’s arm chair; internal Difference 2 features the bed Roger Field and Lorraine Field shared. The works Levelled Years 1-4 is another series of self portraits Fields took through the first year after the death of her husband (2013) to four years later. (2017) Continuing with the landscape theme, Lorraine poses herself laying on her side facing the sea, away from the camera. Lorraine wears all black, referencing back to the representative meaning she has already established in previous works discussed. As the viewer travels through the portraits and subsequently the years post mortem, Lorraine sheds her clothing as she gets closer to the sea. This is a metaphor; the clothing represents her withdrawal from the world and the new experience of being on her own for the first time in a very long time. The clothing represents her discomfort with this new world she now lives in. As the clothing becomes more and more scarce, it's a reflection of how Field is becoming more and more comfortable with herself emotionally. Year after year, Lorraine's pose gets more and more comfortable. From curled into a ball on a table the first year, to comfortably lounging in the fourth. No doubt Lorraine is exploring her general feelings about life and death as each year passes since the death of her husband. “Photography has long been associated with death.” ( Lorraine Field, Alas Artist Statement, 2017). Images can be used to create and represent knowledge of a subject. In Alas Field uses the experience of a death of a loved to create a visual narrative that engages the viewer. “The photograph is a central tool in establishing difference. In systems of