Larks and Katydids

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Larks and Katydids is a photographic exploration of time, memory, the past, and dreams; from the corners of the dusty attic to the album of childhood photos. This exhibition explores the homes of our pasts, the shells we escape to, the images that possess us, and the memories that haunt us. Through photograms, darkroom photography, and cyanotypes, these fragments and memories of dreams are revealed as they are: layered, messy, contradictory, confusing, and ephemeral.

Larks and Katydids is a series consisting of 2 archival pigment prints, 15 gelatin silver prints, 4 gelatin silver photograms, 17 cyanotypes, and one hanging installation consisting of cyanotype-treated wood, transparency film, and thread.

Installation view of Larks and Katydids Exhibition

Isabelle Carroll, Larks and Katydids, installation view, 2023, Northcutt Steele Project Gallery, Montana State University Billings, Billings, MT

Blue cyanotype print on fabric of collaged childhood images

Isabelle Carroll, Larks and Katydids 34, 2023, cyanotype on fabric, approximately 25" x 22.25"

Black and white gelatin silver print of a woman's back with an x-ray of a spine overlaid

Isabelle Carroll, Larks and Katydids 16, 2023, gelatin silver print, 11" x 14"

Black and white gelatin silver print of a woman's face with a death's-head moth blocking the eyes

Isabelle Carroll, Larks and Katydids 21, 2023, gelatin silver print, 11" x 14"

Blue cyanotype on frayed fabric of two childhood images, one with the figures of two girls blocked out, with only the background visible, and one with the negative of a cat's face staring out at the viewer

Isabelle Carroll, Larks and Katydids 23, 2023, cyanotype on fabric, approx. 13.5" x 11.25"

Blue cyanotype on frayed fabric of a childhood image of a blocked figure of a girl standing in front of a dollhouse

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