Rediscovered | Connieimboden

Revisited, rediscovered, and resurrected

It often takes time for me to understand- to really SEE- an image after shooting it. In most cases, I will find something visually striking about a recent image, but may have to live with it for a while, pinning it to the studio wall where it could remain for days, weeks, or even years.

After my 50 year retrospective exhibition at The American University, I found myself in a place of introspection, looking back at old images and considering the work I've created throughout the years. I've brought back some images that were never quite finished, never quite brought to light, perhaps never quite fully embraced until now. This is a collection of those images- revisited, rediscovered, and resurrected.

Untitled #06-18-18-642, 2018

originally photographed in June of 2017. Going over some of this perhaps previously overlooked work, I rediscovered this strange image. I love the bizarre cracks that look like lightning bolts that run down and redefine the figures arms. It feels very mythological, and the overall texture gives it an almost ancient feeling.

Untitled #01-17-20-531, 2020

There are so many images from 2019 to early 2020 that are so complex in how they were seen that I often can't quite figure out how they came about in the first place. The way these forms are pieced together reminds of the Futurist movement of the early 20th century, which is interesting because I’ve never been particularly drawn to artwork from that era. I see a similarity in the sharp, linear quality, perhaps even in the blending of organic, human forms with industrial, hard edges, though there is a departure from the Futurist’s distinctive aspect of dynamic, constant movement.

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Revisited, rediscovered, and resurrected

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