Exhibition Catalog Now Available
View the online exhibition here.
Travel often reveals new viewpoints from which to experience and rethink our day-to-day lives. In a time when travel and vacation are far-off luxuries, how do we locate the unfamiliar around us and appreciate our immediate surroundings in novel ways?
How might aspects of our homes remind us of places to which we have traveled or induce daydreaming? In the words of French philosopher Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space,
...the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as daydreams that these dwelling-places of the past remain in us all the time.
In late April of 2020, the East Bay Photo Collective put out a call to ask how photographers are re-interpreting their spaces. We had a wonderful response, and it was a real delight select images for the show and the create a visual thread. The photographers also provided a short narrative for each image, describing their experience in reframing the familiar of their lives.