Lori Kella: Vignettes

exhibition catalogue for Lori Kella / William Busta projects

From Britany Salsbury’s introduction:
Lori Kella’s Vignettes is as anecdotal as it is expansive, using the artist’s own reflections on the local landscape to quietly but seriously consider the steady force of climate change. The series’ imagery is drawn from over twenty years during which northeast Ohio’s Euclid Creek has served as a constant for Kella and her family, providing the setting for activities from walks to childhood fort building. The Creek spans over forty miles across Cuyahoga County, at times offering surprisingly quiet and placid sites despite its largely urban setting. It is a site whose intimate familiarity for Kella has allowed her to track its, in some cases, dramatic transformation over time, as the ground shifts through erosion and the shoreline itself is changed by ever stronger storms. The more than twenty photographs of Vignettes reflect these alterations by presenting constructed imagery that is often tranquil at first glance but invites further consideration of the natural environment’s impermanence upon further examination.

36 pages
8 x 10 inches