One of the main points of the exhibit focuses on journeys and peoples’ relationships with the world around them. John Mann's work documents the progression of his own journey through nature, as well as the wanderers he tracks and photographs. Ryan Adrick's photography takes the viewer on a portraiture journey of people and places through several different countries. Tracy Longley-Cook's work is a study both in portraiture and the mystery of the interaction of humans and nature. Daniel Kariko's photographs study the relationship of different places to one another and give the viewer a sense of the artist's journey between them.
Lindsay by Ryan Adrick uses a vibrant green to draw the eye to the subject in the foreground, while neutrals (tan wall, gray stone, and brown bark) sink into the background. The green is mimicked by the leaves along the top of the photograph. The composition would feel unbalanced, with most of the weight on the far right of the frame, but this is offset by the tree drawing the eye all the way from the bottom right corner to the top left corner.
Lindsay isn’t hiding anything, glossing over and cropping out the subject’s rough spots like so many portraits tend to do. She wears tattoos, baggy pants, and slouches in a drab setting, arms crossed, looking bored, almost disdainful. The viewer’s relationship with her is with all of her. Lindsay is a lesson in being captivated by the usual. Lindsay is an honest piece about being able to see the unique dichotomy of the beautiful and the ordinary in the same person.
