Securing Shadows
Amy Lovera
Anderson Gallery
March - April,2025
Securing Shadows explores the transience of childhood from my perspective as a mother. These images are photograms, one of the earliest forms of photography. No camera is used; instead, I am working with my family and myself as subjects, laying our bodies directly on top of light-sensitive paper to create white silhouettes. These images draw upon personal symbolism and reenact moments from our daily lives, including the imaginative play-worlds of my children. Motherhood has given me a new sense of time and mortality. Like Wendy from Peter Pan, I am desperately trying to pin down the shadows of my ever-growing children. This work is an attempt to capture the intangibility of this fleeting time and create meaning around what we imprint upon our children either intentionally or unintentionally and how this may affect who they grow to become.
This work is made possible in part by a Faculty/Librarian Research Grant from BSU and a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.