In the tradition of nineteenth-century photograms, this collection of work by Kate Breakey presents the animals, plants, and insects of the American Southwest with scientific precision and breathtaking loveliness
Las sombras, the shadows, are literally that--shadows left behind when Kate Breakey places objects on photosensitive paper and shines light on them. And yet, in the inevitable reversal of photography, these shadows are full of light--and more than light. Breakey's luminous images of coyotes and whipsnakes, hopping mice and scorpions, are filled with her love of the American Southwest that is now her home and the animals, plants, and insects that inhabit it. As she says, "The natural world is full of wondrous things to look at and to chronicle and catalogue. In my own way, I have devoted myself to that end." Las Sombras/The Shadows presents new work that Kate Breakey has created since moving to Arizona in 1999. Accompanying the images is an essay by poet Lia Purpura, in which she invites las sombras to spark her own investigation of shadows, of the absence that paradoxically becomes a kind of presence, especially when held in a photograph. This revealing conversation between images and words opens up a new way of seeing, a discovery of substance in shadows.
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