Beyond the Horizon
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PhotographerSara Wight, United States
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All images are 35mm limited edition chromogenic prints. These images explore the fragility of human life within the context of the natural world.
Sara Wight was born and raised in northeastern Pennsylvania. She received her BFA in Photography from Kutztown University in Pennsylvania and went on to receive her MFA in Photography and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Sara has exhibited her work in New York and throughout the United States. While she has worked in various mediums, photography remains her focus. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
In her latest series, Beyond the Horizon, Sara creates atmospheric yet intimate photographs where the relationship between human life and nature appears delicate and interconnected. Inspired after her father?s death due to a lengthy battle with cancer, Sara attempts to understand the fragility of human life within the context of the natural world. Beyond the Horizon is comprised of 20? x 24? photographic prints that revel in nature?s beauty and mystique. Ever-changing cloud formations are captured as they appeared at a single moment of time before that form was lost and replaced by another. Buildings, wires and fences are temporarily suspended in their current man-made form, destined to return to the earth. Small human figures are neither masters of nor intruders upon the landscape they inhabit. Simply another element of nature, their existence is in a constant state of flux. These photographs reveal that only by viewing these elements together can we begin to make sense of the complex and cyclical relationship between human life and nature.
