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Nanci Milton

In the Prescence of Alchemy: markings of light, markings of memory

by Nanci Milton

Walk around in the virtual gallery & click on images for titles, prices & information. Email Nanci if you are interested in buying one of her prints.

The price is US$450 each or US$600 for a framed print - plus shipment cost.


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Nanci Milton, born 1957, Minneapolis, USA

After studying theater, modern dance, literature and history, I was pulled back to photography and writing both of which were strong influences in my early years. My work today draws heavily on those elements of movement, narrative and visual metaphor involving photography, assemblage, poetry and installation.

In my images I work to confront memory, history, loss and decay; to revere and elevate the forgotten, the discarded, the left-behind, to hold a mirror; the camera, give voice to, the unnoticed and unseen, or no longer wanted to be seen. To gather these pieces, give these disparate pieces, of image and word, and save them and confront them, in intervention and an interrogation of sorts.

Memory retains, then memory itself decays. Then slips away altogether.

A photograph preserves. Still does not save the subject from decay. But an image can still shape for a moment sight, sense, and thought.


dogs-ghosts-v6
unquiet-death-v8
unlock-the-memory-v9
trees-in-smoke2
to-contemplate-simplicity-in-solitude-v10
the-philosophy-of-memory-v11
the-end-of-it-v5
the-dying-swan
the-breath-between-v4
the-branch-and-the-petals-v2
testing-tempted-v6
taos-waitingroom-ghosts4
suburban-trees-bleed-v3
spill-from-an-eye2-v3
sedation-of-the-air-v5
prayers
Phantasmaogoria7-v6
Phantasmagoria-triptych-v1
passing-of-the-light-v8
memory-of-objects-fork-v4
memory-of-objects-comb-v11
look-daddy
leaf-entombed
holding-still-v6
her-window-and-the-air-v4
half-moon-rising-v3
fractured-breath-v3
floating-footsteps-v2
evidence-of-stones-v5
evidence-of-bone-v5
embedded-light-v5
do-come-down2-v6
death-left-behindv19
curved-melancholy-v4
crowned-by-breath-v5
Como-Avenue-birthday
buried-heart
broken-mother-and-child-v5
breath-under-glass-v3
breath-and-light-cohabitate-v6
boxed-twins2
blessing-the-ghost-v4
bleached-ghost-horse-v2
black-necked-rose
beads-in-flight
after-Vermeer-v6
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