Artist Talk: Photographing the Night Landscape at Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island

Artist Talk
Sunday, August 28, 3-4:30pm
Bloedel Reserve
7571 NE Dolphin Dr
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

See more at:

https://bloedelreserve.org/event/giovinco/

I’m pleased to present an artist talk on work created during a residency at the Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island, WA.

It takes place Sunday, August 28, from 3 to 4:30pm at the Bloedel Reserve.

The talk includes photographs made at night during the three weeks spent walking the woods in darkness, a discussion on my working procedure, and answering audience questions.

All the images were created using a digital camera mounted on a tripod. They were made at twilight or nearly complete darkness, illuminated only by moonlight and night sky. Some exposures were two to three hours long, occasionally capturing partially blurred images while other sections remain in sharp focus.

Key to my process is an extensive exploration of the land, where I walk alone through the paths many dozens of times, photographing and rephotographing the forest, clearings, marshes, ponds and specific trees.

I am interested in revealing a quiet mystery of the place.

This is part of a long-term series of projects set in sites of climate change.

ʔa ti Bloedel Reserve ʔal ti swatixwtəd ʔə ti suq’wabš.təłəxw čəł ʔəsk’wədiid txwəl tiiłsuq’wabš.

Bloedel Reserve is on Suquamish Land.
We express deep gratitude to the Suquamish People

“Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished.”

^{Chief Seattle  1854}

We would like to begin by acknowledging that the land on which we gather is within the ancestral territory of the suq̀ʷabš “People of Clear Salt Water” (Suquamish People). Expert fisherman, canoe builders and basket weavers, the suq̀ʷabš live in harmony with the lands and waterways along Washington’s Central Salish Sea as they have for thousands of years. Here, the suq̀ʷabš live and protect the land and waters of their ancestors for future generations as promised by the Point Elliot Treaty of 1855.