Transitory Space, Brooklyn, NYC – Leah Oates

Jun 19, 2021 | Fiction | 0 comments

Montage conceived and photographed by Leah Oates. Captions co-created with Bishnupriya Chowdhuri
TheΒ Transitory SpaceΒ deals with urban and natural locations that are transforming due to the passage of time, altered natural conditions and a continual human imprint.
These photographs are, in essence, artifacts found and formed at the ambiguous territory where Β the human consciousness interacts with space that appears forever present yet keeps morphing through the ungraspable, corridor of time.
Reality, in this context, is but a dialogue Β that goes back on its words every so often. Moments and memories of it is never linear or Β monolythic but is defined by a cacophony of exposers, layers falling on each other. Β 
Is this not how we truly see, imprint, get scarred, get kissed by spaces and time?
Underneath the noise, the bruises of movement and stillness on spaces and perception, I feel the effulgence of a great, fragile beauty. I seek to record that through my art… Β  Β 
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. We are always living in many realities at once. Multiple exposures express the way we experience the world more accurately. I shoot these images on 35 mm film in an analog camera with multiple lenses then scan them and alter these film scans on my computer and then print them as pigment prints. __ Β 

About Author

Leah Oates has a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and a M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a Fulbright Fellow for graduate study at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland.
In Toronto Oates recently had a solo show at Black Cat Artspace and group shows at the Gladstone Hotel, John. Aird Gallery, Connections Gallery among others. Oates has had many solo and group shows internationally as well as nationally across different US cities.

About Translator

Bishnupriya Chowdhuri is a Bengali artist and writer trying to find her roots across continents and oceans. She weaves hybrid pieces about memory, women and bodies using what is often awkward if not an unsavory tangle of Bangla and English. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Central Florida. She is a collector of girl-names, pretty pebbles and family-recipes. Her address keeps changing.Β 

  1. Can you please cite the original poem ? Where to find it in Bangla?

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