Ambedo :
n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, waves of the ocean—which leads to a dawning awareness of the haunting fragility of life.
Ambedo is a photographic series of cyanotypes worked from my own archival images of the Oregon Coast. It is a study of my memory and my time spent there. It is also a work and acknowledgement of fear. My fear of the fragility of life and my fear of losing control. To stand in front of the ocean and address it as the powerful being that it is can be sobering and terrifying. It immediately demands respect from us. I am calmed and haunted by the expanse of the ocean and I think that, along with the ocean, fear also demands respect. There are duplicate images and some images are flipped to resemble the way that memory plays images in our heads. The Images are different sizes and shapes and the brushstrokes from the painting of the cyanotype coating is seen in every image. I wanted my “hand” to be seen in each image and to simulate the sand that is left after the tide pulls away.
Each image is unique, one-of-a-kind.