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Ghost Notes Interview

March 31, 2017 by Chris | 0 Comments

An interview with Sager | Braudis Gallery‘s Director Hannah Reeves about my new series Ghost Notes that debuted in her gallery last fall was published on the gallery’s website. Thanks Hannah for your insightful questions. I treasure my long standing partnership with the gallery!

Right now I’m adding new pieces to the series and will be exhibiting them next month at the Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival or you can contact Hannah at the Sauger Braudis Gallery to view their remaining pieces.

“Ghost Notes”, photograph on waxed washi paper, straight pins, photograph on rag paper

 

From the Sager | Braudis Website:

Chris Dahlquist is known for unique and painstaking preparation and presentation of her photographs, adding depth and resonance in each series by printing on specially-prepared surfaces. While at its heart her new work is landscape photography, her capture of temporary, fog- or smoke-obscured scenes, combined with physical translucency and layering of prints, speaks to mystery, stillness, and awe.

Gallery Director Hannah Reeves asks Dahlquist about her medium, method, and concept, and how viewers can approach and understand the new series currently on exhibit.

 

Reeves: How do you describe your medium? To list it as photography feels overly simple, given your unique process and combination of materials. Continue reading »

Hearing the Unhearable

November 18, 2016 by Chris | 0 Comments

Ghost Notes

 

"Ghost Notes", photograph on waxed washi paper, straight pins, photograph on rag paper

“Ghost Notes”, 22.5″ x 22.5″, photograph on waxed washi paper, straight pins, photograph on rag paper

 

In this new series Ghost Notes I continue to utilize materials, layers, texture and the mark of my hand to further the story of the photograph. However, instead of the solidity of the steel in my Mile Marker series, I am utilizing the whisper like quality of waxed washi paper to suspend time by eschewing detail and context, creating a veiled placeholder to contain our memories. In music, ghost notes are notes that are played but not meant to be heard, thereby giving amplification to the others around it.

From Wikipedia:, “Ghost notes, however, are not simply the unaccented notes in a pattern. The unaccented notes in such a pattern as a clave are considered to represent the mean level of emphasis—they are neither absolutely emphasized nor unemphasized. If one further deemphasizes one of these unaccented notes to the same or a similar extent to which the accented notes in the pattern are emphasized, then one has ‘ghosted’ that note. In a case in which a ghost note is deemphasized to the point of silence, that note then represents a rhythmic placeholder in much the same way as does a rest. This can be a very fine distinction, and the ability of an instrumentalist to differentiate between what is a ghost note and what is a rest is governed largely by the acoustic nature of the instrument.”