Witness Mark — Klea McKenna. Published by Saint Lucy.
Klea McKenna has a habit of taking my breath away. She manages to push photographic materials to reflect the world in camera-less analog renderings that make my hair stand on end. I emerge from these quivering patterns of spider webs, droplets of rain, and tree ring rubbings convinced that both physics and chemistry have been defied, a new version of photographic vision created. Witness Mark is straight-forward in design and beautifully printed, honoring the complexities and physicality of McKenna’s process.
Meggan Gould is an artist living and working outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she is Professor of Art at the University of New Mexico. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the SALT Institute for Documentary Studies, and Speos (Paris Photographic Institute), where she finally began her studies in photography. She received an MFA in photography from the University of Massachusetts — Dartmouth. She recently wrote a book, Sorry, No Pictures, about her own relationship to photography.
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