Sally Kim-Miller ~ Botanical Photography: The Sun and Alternative Processes ~ July 2-30, 2024
From the artist’s statement:
Throughout history, the sun has been the source of natural light and heat to sustain life for all living beings. Humans, plants, flowers, and animals all depend on the sun for food, for warmth, for health, for energy, and also for creating beauty.
My current body of work uses this power of the sun to create beauty. I select and arrange botanical specimens and expose them to the sun by using different photographic processes. For example, the chlorophyll print process uses the sunlight to activate photosynthesis in the leaf to then “develop” the photographic image onto the leaf. This is a unique collaboration between the sun, the leaf, and the photographer. Another example is the lumen print process. The botanicals are placed on photographic paper and exposed to the sun for hours, which then produce a whole different set of colors of the specimen, not ordinarily seen.
The exhibit is open during library hours July 2-30.
Meet the artist at a reception Monday, July 8, from 5-7 pm.
Oral Histories of the Seattle Japanese Garden
The Seattle Japanese Garden recently completed a series of oral history interviews exploring the history of the Garden from the perspective of its gardeners. You can listen to recordings of the interviews or read them on the Seattle Japanese Garden website: https://www.
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