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Traer Scott

Archival pigment print

20"x20"
0.20 lbs

Price

$1000.00

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Creating the images for Natural History is at once exhilarating and tedious. A split second alchemical moment occurs when a person’s moving reflection joins in a meaningful way with the immobile century old dioramas. It’s my goal to capture that which no one else sees, and usually it involves a lot of waiting and loitering in some of America’s most famous museums. I hang out at the very edge of the diorama waiting for people to come view it and then snap shots utilizing a bounced flash aimed at the very top of the diorama which then refracts off the glass and strengthens the reflection rather than erasing it. Often this leaves me lingering in the shadows near the same diorama for long periods. I often imagine the same challenges as when out in the field stalking wildlife except that these non-human subjects are not running from me and in fact it is the people that are hard to catch.

Traer Scott. Providence, RI

Artist Statement

Natural History is a series of candid, in-camera single exposure images, which merge the living and the dead, creating allegorical narratives of our troubled co-existence with nature. Ghost-like reflections of visitors viewing wildlife dioramas are juxtaposed against the preserved subjects, housed behind the thick glass with their faces molded into permanent expressions of fear, aggression or fleeting passivity.

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