In the Windows

Cary Welling

Images from the series called ‘Now you See Her’

6th - 22nd January 2024

These prints were derived from tiny electrostatic carbon photographs made some time ago. The title alludes to the difficulty of seeing lips, the subject of the images, especially close up.

Cary’s research projects all involve what can be seen, shown or invented by the simple use of unmanipulated photography. The subject matter has frequently been lips, to investigate the invention of ‘personality’ by cropping, angle of view, tone, scale etc. Separately, and occasionally at the same time, she produced images with large ‘dots’ by a variety of image making processes: traditional analogue, photo mechanical, digital and in this case electrostatic carbon. Seeing what these images are of takes some effort on the part of the viewer, hopefully alerting them to their active participation in looking at photographs. Which sounds a little dry, some projects are just for fun - giant digital photographs composed of one pixel per inch where the subject is only visible at a great distance.