Mary Daniel Hobson
Muir Beach, California
Machu Picchu II (top) 3 bottles, 10" x 14" x 6"
Presidio (bottom) 3 bottles, 8" x 10" x 6"
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“Inspired by a dream, I have been gathering photographs from my past and bottling them. The torn edges of the photographs reference the fragmentary nature of memory. When grouped together in sets, the images take on a cubistic quality, emulating how the eye moves through a scene, never quite recording the entire picture.
I am also interested in the conflation of art and science. The photographs hover in mineral oil like specimens, once fully alive, now waiting to be analyzed. I have been particularly drawn to imagery of the natural world because it is nature that science has worked so hard to seal and study while paradoxically it is nature that holds mysteries larger than can ever possibly be contained.”
Artist Biography
Mary Daniel Hobson became captivated by photography at the age of fourteen. She holds an MA in the history of photography from the University of New Mexico, where her studies of Surrealism inspired her to work in a mixed media manner. Her photo-sculptures and intimate collages have been widely exhibited nationally, and are in collections such as the SFMOMA and the Albuquerque Museum.
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