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SUMMARY:Melinda Hurst Frye & Jessica Hays | as Above\, so Below - Artist Panel
  & Reception
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Griffin Museum for an afternoon presentation with
  photographers Jessica Hays and Melinda Hurst Frye as they discuss
  their current exhibition and the ideas shaping their work. 
 
 Bringing together two distinct photographic practices\, as Above so
  Below explores the vision and questions around land use\,
  stewardship\, and shared resources. Hayes and Frye consider how we
  inhabit the landscape -- how land holds memory\, labor\, extraction\,
  care\, and consequence. Through their individual approaches\, they
  reflect on the ways environments are shaped by human presence and
  policy\, and how those decisions reverberate through communities and
  generations. 
 
 In dialogue with one another\, their work invites close looking and
  thoughtful engagement\, asking viewers to consider not only what is
  seen\, but what is sustained\, altered\, or depleted. During this
  special presentation\, the artists will speak about their creative
  processes\, the evolution of their projects\, and how concerns around
  land\, ownership\, and responsibility inform their practice. 
 
 Following the panel discussion\, a reception will follow. 
 
 Murmuration\, USA\, Palouse\, WA\, Crows fly across the highway in
  thick orange smoke. 2020© Melinda Hurst Frye
 
 as Above\, so Below brings together the photographic practices of
  Melinda Hurst Frye and Jessica Hays converging around the poetic
  interplay of environment\, memory\, and the cycles that shape both
  landscape and psyche. The exhibition's title references an ancient
  axiom suggesting that what occurs on one scale is reflected on
  another--a concept echoed in environmental thought that emphasizes
  interdependence\, reciprocity\, and responsibility within the natural
  world. 
 
 Biologist E.O. Wilson noted that biodiversity is the key to the
  maintenance of the world as we know it. This perspective provides a
  useful context for the exhibition\, where attention to both visible
  and often overlooked forms of life shapes how the photographs are made
  and experienced. 
 
 Melinda Hurst Frye's work embodies close observation and ecological
  awareness. Using a flatbed scanner to record the forest floor in
  extraordinary detail\, she reveals the complex networks of fungi\,
  plant matter\, and soil that support life above ground. Her images
  challenge traditional notions of landscape by centering what is
  typically unseen\, reminding us that the health of visible ecosystems
  depends on fragile\, interconnected systems beneath our feet. By
  shifting attention to what lies underfoot\, Frye asks us to reconsider
  scale\, value\, and our relationship to the natural world. 
 
 Jessica Hays approaches the landscape as both ecological reality and
  lived experience. Her photographs engage environments shaped by
  climate change\, wildfire\, and personal history\, reflecting
  humanity's innate connection to the natural world and the emotional
  consequences of its disruption. Through alternative photographic
  processes and layered visual strategies\, Hays considers how land
  holds memory and how environmental change reverberates through the
  body and the self. 
 
 Together\, Frye and Hays move between the intimate and the expansive\,
  the microscopic and the monumental. As Above\, so Below invites
  viewers to consider how photographic images can reveal
  connection--between land and self\, past and present--and encourage a
  deeper awareness of our place within the systems that sustain us.
LOCATION:Griffin Museum of Photography\, 67 Shore Road\, Winchester\, MA 01890
URL:https://griffinmuseum.org/event/asabove_panel/
CATEGORIES:Cultural\,Community
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