Connie Lowell
Call for Urgency arose from recollections of the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire. I’ve selectively scorched and burnt prints of landscape images through controlled oxidized combustion. Like the current, incremental, and seemingly inevitable path of environmental change, the resulting images are permanently altered. Once printed, any other digital and physical images of the landscapes will be destroyed, leaving only the burnt images as record of what once existed.
The impacts of the Anthropocene are far reaching and will require our action to offset the damage. What form of ‘fire’ will it take to ignite our urgency and galvanize us to take steps to alter our course? The Clean Water Act, catalyzed in part by the river fire, demonstrates our ability to achieve significant improvements if only we act.
Artist Bio
A native New Englander, Connie Lowell has spent much of her adult life in a cubicle, staring at a screen or if fortunate, out a window. Having spent much of her childhood enjoying the outdoors, Lowell is now passionate about reconnecting with the natural world, understanding many of its unique occupants and exploring the various systems and orders of living things. Those explorations also include her observations of the effects of humanity on natural systems, resources and lands – as well as about humanity itself.
Residing now in New Hampshire, Lowell selects from a variety of cameras, light sensitive materials and other mechanisms and methods to capture, print and create visual, photographic art works. Lowell’s works have been selected for numerous juried shows across the US and has appeared in the Boston Globe and ArtScope Magazine in relation to exhibits. The images Lowell creates both celebrate the abundance and variety of life and reflect on its implications.