Filtered by glass, windows and windshields, these images are more about our unconscious daily views of the world and how things really look. Most of these photographs have been taken while in motion using a fast shutter speed. They are either of moving vehicles–ferries, cars, motorcycles, etc. or have been made from moving vehicles.
Working in tandem with chance, I record and later mine the images, deciphering meaning from what I sent this blind, mechanical camera eye out to collect for me. In that way, these images challenge the traditional role of photography: to capture the ultimate, impossibly perfect and beautiful moment and bring it home from the wild, the exotic, the far-away and the impassible. I retrieve the impossible to behold–milliseconds of motion that no longer exist. These are views only the camera can see. It’s essentially fossilizing motion.
Miranda Gatewood holds an M.F.A. in fine art photography from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI. Exhibiting since 1977, her language is images. Gatewood’s photographs have been collected by the Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA, won awards and was selected for national juried photography exhibits including The Long Island Biennial, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY; The Art of Photography, Art Institute of San Diego, CA; Ambient Light, MPLS Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN; PHOTOcentric, Garrison, NY; All New England, Cape Cod Artists Association, Barnstable, MA; The Gallery at WREN, Bethlehem, NH and The Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, NY. Gatewood has produced public art outdoor projections of words and images called Light Murals, for East End Arts and “Alive on 25”, Riverhead, NY.
Gatewood is a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Strategic Opportunity Stipend and an exhibitor in the NYFA-funded East End Arts’ JumpstART.
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