Transitory Space
by Leah Oates
The Transitory Space series deals with urban and natural locations that are transforming due to the passage of time, altered natural conditions and a continual human imprint. In everyone and in everything there are daily changes, and this series articulates fluctuations in the photographic image and captures movement through time and space.
Humans leave traces and artifacts of our consciousness everywhere in our environment. Contradictory realities can be found co-existing wherever we look. They’re in what we choose to think; what we choose to believe; how we choose to act; and they can be found in what we choose to observe.
When I look back on a moment, it’s full of impressions, and multiple exposures capture this. I make multiple exposures on specific frames in camera which allows me to display a more complete correlation of experiences that a single exposure just misses.
Every moment captured on film is over as soon as the shutter clicks, recording the ephemeral. Yet, in reality, there is always a visual cacophony of experience, and we live in many realities at once. Multiple exposures express the way we experience the world, as our perception is not fixed.
Leah Oates has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is a Fulbright Fellow for study at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. Oates has had solo shows in NYC, Toronto, and in Chicago; at Remote Gallery, Black Cat Artspace, Susan Eley Fine Art, Artemisia Gallery, A.I.R. Gallery, Women Made Gallery, The Central Park Arsenal Gallery, Real Art Ways, The Brooklyn Public Library, and at the MTA Arts and Design Lightbox Project. Oates has been in numerous group shows in NYC at Wave Hill, Edward Hopper House, Chashama, WAH Center, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Denise Bibro Fine Art, Nurture Art Gallery, and The Pen and Brush Gallery.
