Split Focus: Reimagining the American Landscape with Morgain Bailey and Yvonne Dalschen
Split Focus: Reimagining the American Landscape
Morgain Bailey and Yvonne Dalschen
Split Focus: Reimagining the American Landscape is a collaborative project between Yvonne Dalschen and Morgain Bailey. Yvonne lives in Tennessee and Morgain lives in Maine. The photos may have been made anywhere in the United States. They are working together to create a weekly diptych that is inspired by documenting the landscape and the built environment. The project started in January of 2022 and will go through December of 2022.
By creating diptychs in a call and response process, they are challenging themselves to communicate visually with each other and to rethink their connections with the land. The goal is to include the viewer, by encouraging them to fill the space in-between the images with their imagination and to create their own connections and meanings in response to the images.
Yvonne Dalschen is a photographer based in Oak Ridge, TN. She started as a book person and got an MA in Comparative Literature in Munich, Germany, then worked in an auction house. After changing countries and languages, she switched to photography with a Photography Certificate from UT, Knoxville. Yvonne is fascinated by photography as a way to document, reveal and disrupt. She is a hunter/gatherer of images and is exploring photography as a form of digital alchemy. Working with layering techniques in Photoshop, playing with phone photography and a menagerie of filters and transformations, she creates new visual experiences.
Morgain Bailey (she/they) is a multimedia visual artist whose work focuses on documenting the landscape. Her heart has been claimed by many places, including the coast of California, Oregon and Washington as well as hidden spots in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. She is inspired by many sources including social justice, history, politics, science, technology and our environment. A quiet practice of contemplative observation is the foundation of her work. She is alumna of the San Francisco Art Institute in California and lives in Presque Isle, Maine.
