https://pamelahadley.com Pamela Hadley Studio Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:04:44 +0000 https://pamelahadley.com en https://pamelahadley.com/Home Mon, 29 Jul 2019 21:18:51 +0000 Pamela Hadley Studio https://pamelahadley.com/Home Pamela Hadley is a time-based light artist based in Portland, OR. Using projected minimalist abstract animations while considering or constructing architectural forms, they create immersive environments. They are interested in how embodied viewing changes the scale of time and place and makes us witnesses to the divorce of contemporary culture from these basic realities. Believing that phenomenological experience can be an agent of social change, they seek to make these experiences available to everyone. &nbsp; NEWS:Hadley was awarded a Portland Arts Project Grant for 2026 by Portland’s Regional Arts &amp; Culture Council in support of their solo exhibition, Holding Me, Holding You at Carnation Contemporary, Jan. 10 - Feb. 01, 2026. MEDIA:Hadley facilitated a conversation between artists Matthew Bennet Laurents and Jeremy LeGrand about their show, Nirvanamatopoeia, for Carnation Contemporary. Read the transcript here.&nbsp; Hadley was interviewed as the August/September 2020 Artist-in-Residence with Prairie Ronde Artist Residency in Vicksburg, MI. [Watch the video] Listen to Hadley discuss her work in an interview with Zinta Aistars, “Art Beat: Art in Light,” WMUK Radio, Kalamazoo, MI. https://pamelahadley.com/Work-Navigation-1 Mon, 29 Jul 2019 21:18:52 +0000 Pamela Hadley Studio https://pamelahadley.com/Work-Navigation-1 https://pamelahadley.com/Print-Editions Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:04:44 +0000 Pamela Hadley Studio https://pamelahadley.com/Print-Editions PRINT EDITIONS <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/73c166e13c6fd4d48d19a612c9eb6d3580df7fbf87b7a17c5cde2595c9061b06/Channel_23_A-01_11x17_v2_11x17.jpg" data-mid="244530427" border="0" alt="Channel A01, 2023" data-caption="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;i&gt;Channel A01,&lt;/i&gt; 2023&lt;/h2&gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/73c166e13c6fd4d48d19a612c9eb6d3580df7fbf87b7a17c5cde2595c9061b06/Channel_23_A-01_11x17_v2_11x17.jpg" /> <img width="6375" height="4125" width_o="6375" height_o="4125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6be0b286c872996c12f1624eb178694fa60d1be2494332839fc0e2c584143ae6/ScreamingIntoTheWaves_01.jpg" data-mid="244530433" border="0" alt="Screaming Into the Waves A01, 2022" data-caption="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;i&gt;Screaming Into the Waves A01,&lt;/i&gt; 2022&lt;/h2&gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6be0b286c872996c12f1624eb178694fa60d1be2494332839fc0e2c584143ae6/ScreamingIntoTheWaves_01.jpg" /> <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9dc72613bcd5a39f0cff9ec8ed8de44acc77765d9296a2ad6c7be98045e786e/Ghost_24_A_01_v2_11x17.jpg" data-mid="244530429" border="0" alt="Giving Up the Ghost A01, 2024" data-caption="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;i&gt;Giving Up the Ghost A01,&lt;/i&gt; 2024&lt;/h2&gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d9dc72613bcd5a39f0cff9ec8ed8de44acc77765d9296a2ad6c7be98045e786e/Ghost_24_A_01_v2_11x17.jpg" /> <img width="4128" height="2671" width_o="4128" height_o="2671" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b7c6cfda43f565d0d3b1acbb01044f6f2af2b12e475389101be5c98f6b7afb1a/Precious_25_Full_01_v3_11x17.jpg" data-mid="244530466" border="0" alt="Precious Beings Full 01, 2025" data-caption="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;i&gt;Precious Beings Full 01,&lt;/i&gt; 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2025&lt;/h2&gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1476dffe644c40d0f2261e3b4d3fc3bf045184f8e04c47b7d8d24651bae391d2/Precious_25_Nest_Detail_A-01_v4_11x17.jpg" /> <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a343b523b5a482bd1a87746ffccdbc7191621a5a4ab552160dfdbcb669e85be3/PreciousBeings_Full_02.jpg" data-mid="244530431" border="0" alt="Precious Beings Full 02, 2025" data-caption="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;i&gt;Precious Beings Full 02,&lt;/i&gt; 2025&lt;/h2&gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a343b523b5a482bd1a87746ffccdbc7191621a5a4ab552160dfdbcb669e85be3/PreciousBeings_Full_02.jpg" /> <img width="3825" height="2475" width_o="3825" height_o="2475" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/551f3656d972f4689a3343be00c2d538c58f7ce08e436567f9f4863a2b5dbbbf/Diorama_01.jpg" data-mid="244530428" border="0" alt="Diorama 01, 2024" data-caption="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;i&gt;Diorama 01,&lt;/i&gt; 2024&lt;/h2&gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/551f3656d972f4689a3343be00c2d538c58f7ce08e436567f9f4863a2b5dbbbf/Diorama_01.jpg" /> <img width="3300" height="5100" width_o="3300" height_o="5100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1dcb6eaf93c29a83128042ea18e9cba9fe46a81e3f63ad27fa98636d49f1bcc8/Screaming_Left_01.jpg" data-mid="244530432" border="0" alt="Screaming Into the Waves Left 01, 2022" data-caption="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;i&gt;Screaming Into the Waves Left 01,&lt;/i&gt; 2022&lt;/h2&gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1dcb6eaf93c29a83128042ea18e9cba9fe46a81e3f63ad27fa98636d49f1bcc8/Screaming_Left_01.jpg" /> <img width="3300" height="5100" width_o="3300" height_o="5100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bda35a943b1e58bbb5b91300820878b449107cdd6ceec11331a508c64f1fffdf/TheAncients_01_11x17.jpg" data-mid="244530434" border="0" alt="The Ancients 01, 2024" data-caption="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Ancients 01,&lt;/i&gt; 2024&lt;/h2&gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bda35a943b1e58bbb5b91300820878b449107cdd6ceec11331a508c64f1fffdf/TheAncients_01_11x17.jpg" /> <img width="5100" height="3300" width_o="5100" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3796d8a5c5009381e086af1fc5ba0cee9a10e6144a5a8be366f14c5a49e832be/WonderValley_Int-01_v2_11x17.jpg" data-mid="244530435" border="0" alt="Wonder Valley Interior 01, 2023" data-caption="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;i&gt;Wonder Valley Interior 01,&lt;/i&gt; 2023&lt;/h2&gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3796d8a5c5009381e086af1fc5ba0cee9a10e6144a5a8be366f14c5a49e832be/WonderValley_Int-01_v2_11x17.jpg" /> Photographs of projection installations: Archival prints on cotton rag paper. Available sizes: 11 x 17 in -&nbsp;Editions of 10. 6 x 8 in -&nbsp;Editions of 10.&nbsp; Please contact me for pricing Each of these are gorgeously printed by Borderline Press, Portland, OR. Select prints are available pre-framed in a stunning black shadow box frame, custom made by Luke’s Frame Shop, Portland, OR. These frames give the prints a presence more akin to a window or a portal rather than a flat, contained image. If you purchase an un-framed print and would like to have it framed in the same manner, you can mention my name at the Luke’s Alberta location and they will know what to do. To request a print, please email me directly. Thank you. Prints that are available pre-framed: <img width="2000" height="1690" width_o="2000" height_o="1690" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe75fd2e1f975ce8675ec30279c370a9562a1deb183447b547e4389dbdc5e7b1/Pamela-Hadley-Holding-me-holding-you-DSC_4075-HDR-web.jpg" data-mid="244530512" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe75fd2e1f975ce8675ec30279c370a9562a1deb183447b547e4389dbdc5e7b1/Pamela-Hadley-Holding-me-holding-you-DSC_4075-HDR-web.jpg" /> <img width="1333" height="2000" width_o="1333" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/afd7ae91ca4f6f9157d37b0f53733819051a4bb41f2a5a5e2f2c4da03b7676ab/Pamela-Hadley-Holding-me-holding-you-DSC_4156-web.jpg" data-mid="244530514" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/afd7ae91ca4f6f9157d37b0f53733819051a4bb41f2a5a5e2f2c4da03b7676ab/Pamela-Hadley-Holding-me-holding-you-DSC_4156-web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1729" width_o="2000" height_o="1729" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e641614ae0752887257fc6fe989bc72548be584293e2c8353e5d493f02198ab4/Pamela-Hadley-Holding-me-holding-you-DSC_4074-HDR-web.jpg" data-mid="244530511" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e641614ae0752887257fc6fe989bc72548be584293e2c8353e5d493f02198ab4/Pamela-Hadley-Holding-me-holding-you-DSC_4074-HDR-web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1690" width_o="2000" height_o="1690" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe19fb34ec38ee5b15de9323c07e7b1826dd8354eed390ab709be0f7a02e1ae2/Pamela-Hadley-Holding-me-holding-you-DSC_4163-web.jpg" data-mid="244530518" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe19fb34ec38ee5b15de9323c07e7b1826dd8354eed390ab709be0f7a02e1ae2/Pamela-Hadley-Holding-me-holding-you-DSC_4163-web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1652" width_o="2000" height_o="1652" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/71011319df95e70de422fe89f377eada714c513710a3d1e27d20cd6a2fa61483/Pamela-Hadley-Holding-me-holding-you-DSC_4161-web.jpg" data-mid="244530516" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/71011319df95e70de422fe89f377eada714c513710a3d1e27d20cd6a2fa61483/Pamela-Hadley-Holding-me-holding-you-DSC_4161-web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1690" width_o="2000" height_o="1690" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/28372c13de5e21a4d57c34b66a9e722302ad79de5d37f1c285ad687c10c14a38/Pamela-Hadley-Holding-me-holding-you-DSC_4160-web.jpg" data-mid="244530515" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/28372c13de5e21a4d57c34b66a9e722302ad79de5d37f1c285ad687c10c14a38/Pamela-Hadley-Holding-me-holding-you-DSC_4160-web.jpg" /> https://pamelahadley.com/Holding-Me-Holding-You Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:34:57 +0000 Pamela Hadley Studio https://pamelahadley.com/Holding-Me-Holding-You HOLDING ME,HOLDING YOUJan. 10 - Feb. 01, 2026Carnation Contemporary Portland, OR Holding Me, Holding You is an immersive installation featuring abstract projection-mapped animation and sound compositions that open paths to new futures through ecology, relational aesthetics, and the phenomenological. Visitors are ushered into the darkness by small light works before discovering the full-room installation that is the show's focal point. There, they will navigate the space, each other, and, if they remain still for long enough, perhaps the sequestered locales within their own inner landscape. EXHIBITION STATEMENT “I fear something I often see in my own amnesiac country, the acceptance of what should be unacceptable, the mistaking for inevitable or eternal those destructive things that are neither. That is, I fear forgetting,” says Rebecca Solnit while discussing the value of a deep time approach to current events. She continues, “I’ve become a lover of slowness, patience, endurance, and long-term vision, because these things seem like crucial equipment for changing the world or even understanding it.” Slowness is not just a method; it is a core strategy of mypractice; a deliberate act of healing from and resisting a culture that often reduces the value of human life to what one produces, while prioritizing rapid consumption and immediate outcomes. A great lesson in endurance can be found in lichens. With some species growing at as little as one millimeter per year, lichens act as essential reservoirs of nutrients,&nbsp;significantly enriching forest ecosystems. What’s more, they “blur the definition of what it means to be an individual, as a lichen is not one being, but two: a fungus and an alga… Some pairs are so specialized that they cannot live apart from one another.” Such joining of two organisms may seem far-fetched, but it could not be closer to home. Recent biological research has revived a 1967 theory long overlooked: that multicellular life began not with a single-celled organism dividing, but with the union of two. In 2012, a team of biologists further developed this perspective in their essay, “A Symbiotic View of Life: We Have Never Been Individuals.”&nbsp; Their conclusion is striking — “We are all lichens.” Slowness and stillness, facilitated here by perceptual experience, invite reflection and connection and create space to imagine ways in which we will remake our world. “In a world of scarcity, interconnection and mutual aid become critical for survival. 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a4ab5fe05173e0e33dac15218eb8e6ed22f1ea0905843fe13eaa30b35adc060/Pamela-Hadley-Holding-me-holding-you-DSC_4075-HDR-web.jpg" data-mid="244433761" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a4ab5fe05173e0e33dac15218eb8e6ed22f1ea0905843fe13eaa30b35adc060/Pamela-Hadley-Holding-me-holding-you-DSC_4075-HDR-web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1729" width_o="2000" height_o="1729" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/65a83711591b7272c0f039249fe6d78f46682193ee8dc114474203c2a6059fb1/Pamela-Hadley-Holding-me-holding-you-DSC_4074-HDR-web.jpg" data-mid="244433760" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/65a83711591b7272c0f039249fe6d78f46682193ee8dc114474203c2a6059fb1/Pamela-Hadley-Holding-me-holding-you-DSC_4074-HDR-web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/17f316524cff31fc60eee35aad45449fae1b0f387c81db90714201bea048962b/Pamela-Hadley-Holding-me-holding-you-DSC_4078-HDR-web.jpg" data-mid="244433762" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/17f316524cff31fc60eee35aad45449fae1b0f387c81db90714201bea048962b/Pamela-Hadley-Holding-me-holding-you-DSC_4078-HDR-web.jpg" /> PROGRAM SCHEDULE Sat., Jan. 24th7:00-8:00 pA conversation with Dr. Grant Vetter: From Rhizomatic to Lichen Politics: Habitation as a form of Revolutionary-Becoming in the work of Pamela Hadley. Streaming live on Instagram: @carnationcontemporary Sat., Jan. 24th 8:30 - 11:30 pDance party! &amp; Benefit for PIRC:&nbsp; Immediately following the discussion with Dr. Vetter, join us and bring a friend for some fun and community at Disjecta, right next door to Carnation. We will be raising funds through donations, refreshment sales, and a raffle - all to benefit the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition. The exhibition will remain open for viewing during the party. Suggested donation of $20, but no one will be turned away. Please bring your ID if you plan to drink. Sun., Jan. 25th*5 - 6:30 pSonar Session&nbsp; &nbsp; An opportunity to share strategies for grief, resilience, and solidarity. Bring an excerpt from a reading that is helping you through this time, especially if it inspires strength and action. We will gather in the exhibition, in the dark, and take turns reading to each other. If you prefer, someone can read it for you. Or, play a section from a podcast that you find particularly meaningful. *changed from 6-7:30 ABOUT DR. GRANT VETTER With over twenty-five years of experience in the arts, Dr. Grant Vetter has exhibited his work with or served as a curator for an extensive array of colleges and arts institutions in the US, Europe, and East Asia. Dr. Vetter has been an instructor at institutions such as the Pacific Northwest College of the Arts, Arizona State University, Sci-ARCH, and the California African American Museum. He completed his Post-Doc in the International Curators Program at the NODE Center for Curatorial Studies in Berlin and he holds degrees from the European Graduate School, the University of California, Irvine, the Critical Theory Institute, and the Art Center College of Design and is the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards. He writes reviews of art exhibitions and is the author of The Architecture of Control (Zero Books), which proposed a new lexicon for understanding relations of power/knowledge in the twenty-first century, and Spaceboy &amp; The Supercognate, co-authored with Justin Bower, which examines the fate of humanity in the age of artificial intelligence. He is currently represented by Durden + Ray in Los Angeles. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;grantvetter.info&nbsp; | @grant.vetter <img width="4500" height="5625" width_o="4500" height_o="5625" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1beebb23af8d7b220879e66767c7ccd0563a345e045495c29c2d3418ed4ce91e/IG-Graphic-02.jpg" data-mid="243816528" border="0" alt="IG Live: @carnationcontemporary" data-caption="&lt;small&gt;&lt;b&gt;IG Live: @carnationcontemporary&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/small&gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1beebb23af8d7b220879e66767c7ccd0563a345e045495c29c2d3418ed4ce91e/IG-Graphic-02.jpg" /> <img width="4500" height="5625" width_o="4500" height_o="5625" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/553ca25bb8a05aa4f8fc2e0fa316207840f37f9de8cfe7204c499adacd4722e2/IG-Graphic-01.jpg" data-mid="243816526" border="0" alt="FYI No shoes on dance floor per landlord" data-caption="&lt;small&gt;&lt;b&gt;FYI No shoes on dance floor per landlord&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/small&gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/553ca25bb8a05aa4f8fc2e0fa316207840f37f9de8cfe7204c499adacd4722e2/IG-Graphic-01.jpg" /> <img width="4500" height="5625" width_o="4500" height_o="5625" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d3c1bbdcfdc9759c9ac72be85e8a8760228fe05d199c6ec349a02e710695228/IG-Graphic-03.jpg" data-mid="243816531" border="0" alt="Bring a reading to share aloud" data-caption="&lt;small&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bring a reading to share aloud&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/small&gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d3c1bbdcfdc9759c9ac72be85e8a8760228fe05d199c6ec349a02e710695228/IG-Graphic-03.jpg" /> The exhibition and all events are ADA accessible by entering through Oregon Contemporary. <img width="1300" height="548" width_o="1300" height_o="548" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/400fd46c16e9a6e80078f24ce7acc4295858206beafcc7c12fe70f3d385bccdb/stacked-logo-white-PNG.png" data-mid="244531365" border="0" data-scale="75" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/400fd46c16e9a6e80078f24ce7acc4295858206beafcc7c12fe70f3d385bccdb/stacked-logo-white-PNG.png" /> Deep thanks to the Regional Arts &amp; Culture Council and the Office of Arts &amp; Culture for their generous financial support of Holding Me, Holding You. https://pamelahadley.com/Precious-Beings Wed, 24 Sep 2025 07:17:07 +0000 Pamela Hadley Studio https://pamelahadley.com/Precious-Beings PRECIOUS BEINGS Aug. 14 - 25, 2025Terrain Land Art Residency &amp; Exhibition Building 5, Portland, OR Abstract projection-mapped animation, sound, natural materials: tree trunk and segments, mossy bird nest, cottonwood fluff bird nest, cattail leaves, cottonwood catkins, sound composition. Dimensions variable. Run time: 6:30. Viewing enclosure: 8x8x8 ft. <img width="1980" height="1114" width_o="1980" height_o="1114" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6bdea399e2614a44b87af3c4b37791ceee003e573d35133e7a2ce6804034da58/DSC06524.jpg" data-mid="241754726" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6bdea399e2614a44b87af3c4b37791ceee003e573d35133e7a2ce6804034da58/DSC06524.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3859b1288f8b0bdc83b58de0172d32d5ebd37a3c5d1e5b7e28b5ece16de160e/Exterior2.jpg" data-mid="238592020" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f3859b1288f8b0bdc83b58de0172d32d5ebd37a3c5d1e5b7e28b5ece16de160e/Exterior2.jpg" /> <img width="2102" height="2816" width_o="2102" height_o="2816" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af170c60a9ef5e18ab0c45b70e2eb35d71ebe8863b00abfe7b455a73f8c23b87/Exterior1.jpg" data-mid="238592019" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/af170c60a9ef5e18ab0c45b70e2eb35d71ebe8863b00abfe7b455a73f8c23b87/Exterior1.jpg" /> <img width="3554" height="2000" width_o="3554" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95be9d5016b0e02396657f516f8de1451ed782544d562c0d669f71804bc04abe/DSC06565.jpg" data-mid="238592014" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95be9d5016b0e02396657f516f8de1451ed782544d562c0d669f71804bc04abe/DSC06565.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2421" width_o="2000" height_o="2421" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/93d7da962bc812218f1d0c3bad3274bd12d38078e9cb0682497b9b218d02d101/Terrain-2025-DZC_4394-HDR.jpg" data-mid="238592016" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/93d7da962bc812218f1d0c3bad3274bd12d38078e9cb0682497b9b218d02d101/Terrain-2025-DZC_4394-HDR.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="1350" width_o="2400" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ea4683c9370e4b191af4e0240ad74d46324e41f5b00cb8ba7348e8865fdcc81/Precious_25_Full_v2_16x9.jpg" data-mid="241754432" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ea4683c9370e4b191af4e0240ad74d46324e41f5b00cb8ba7348e8865fdcc81/Precious_25_Full_v2_16x9.jpg" /> Photography by Mario Gallucci Deep thanks to RACC for their generous support of this exhibition with a 2025 Portland Projects Grant. https://pamelahadley.com/The-Ancients Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:22:16 +0000 Pamela Hadley Studio https://pamelahadley.com/The-Ancients THE ANCIENTS 2024-25 Projection-Mapped Abstract Animation, Organza, Horsetail Lichen. Dimensions: 6x6x6 in. Run time: 3:00This piece was made while in residence at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR.&nbsp; https://pamelahadley.com/The-Color-of-Where-We-Are-Not Sun, 01 Sep 2024 18:31:12 +0000 Pamela Hadley Studio https://pamelahadley.com/The-Color-of-Where-We-Are-Not THE COLOR OF WHERE WE ARE NOT Solo ExhibitionOct. 05 - 28, 2024 Carnation Contemporary Portland, OR A collection of immersive perceptual experiences: dark environments housing abstract animations, projection-mapping, found and made objects, video, and sound. <img width="2318" height="1610" width_o="2318" height_o="1610" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/181b552e5ce75e6a1ebd05c334a6310af3c41a2e030f163569ed99bd2885f9bb/Hadley_Promo_01.png" data-mid="217278276" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/181b552e5ce75e6a1ebd05c334a6310af3c41a2e030f163569ed99bd2885f9bb/Hadley_Promo_01.png" /> Included Works: <img width="2012" height="1102" width_o="2012" height_o="1102" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62747ad36fecd0fda08e41e9b94f05c1e57aa3834ef99e9a280ae8f18bfe25bb/Screen-Shot-2022-01-16-at-7.05.38-PM.png" data-mid="217278642" border="0" alt="What's Left" data-caption="&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.75);&quot;&gt;&lt;H2&gt;&lt;i&gt;What's Left&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/H2&gt;&lt;/span&gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62747ad36fecd0fda08e41e9b94f05c1e57aa3834ef99e9a280ae8f18bfe25bb/Screen-Shot-2022-01-16-at-7.05.38-PM.png" /> <img width="2400" height="1800" width_o="2400" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e8f9b13fc36f8ab66a0f2f28826bd082e9f6693d4042abea64702e0700cb1e72/Screaming.jpg" data-mid="217278668" border="0" alt="Screaming Into the Waves" data-caption="&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.75);&quot;&gt;&lt;H2&gt;&lt;i&gt;Screaming Into the Waves&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/H2&gt;&lt;/span&gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e8f9b13fc36f8ab66a0f2f28826bd082e9f6693d4042abea64702e0700cb1e72/Screaming.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1126" width_o="2000" height_o="1126" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8be7e790d884866fa0c0940d3156e0074f7fd9b9e98885360d330086a5aa197b/Ghost-05_sm_16x9.png" data-mid="244528234" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8be7e790d884866fa0c0940d3156e0074f7fd9b9e98885360d330086a5aa197b/Ghost-05_sm_16x9.png" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8fbf0ca22ca3f25e6bd8300dfa93231d57ae4c7c0cbe597331306fda0740eb15/DSC04313.jpeg" data-mid="217278247" border="0" alt="Wonder Valley" data-caption="&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.75);&quot;&gt;&lt;H2&gt;&lt;i&gt;Wonder Valley&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/H2&gt;&lt;/span&gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8fbf0ca22ca3f25e6bd8300dfa93231d57ae4c7c0cbe597331306fda0740eb15/DSC04313.jpeg" /> <img width="6000" height="3376" width_o="6000" height_o="3376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4320b1611e1ec6aad95fa5c56e7b034bacfd25397636d774306d105108687c4d/Hadley_Promo_03.JPG" data-mid="217278685" border="0" alt="All the Losses We Could Never Name" data-caption="&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.75);&quot;&gt;&lt;H2&gt;&lt;i&gt;All the Losses We Could Never Name&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/H2&gt;&lt;/span&gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4320b1611e1ec6aad95fa5c56e7b034bacfd25397636d774306d105108687c4d/Hadley_Promo_03.JPG" /> <img width="4240" height="2384" width_o="4240" height_o="2384" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85c1d59785f50b1a72c175f18d652ccf0a06fda68a240ac4836088437e68f75b/DSC00869.JPG" data-mid="217278666" border="0" alt="Coming Out of the Fog" data-caption="&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.75);&quot;&gt;&lt;H2&gt;&lt;i&gt;Coming Out of the Fog&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/H2&gt;&lt;/span&gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85c1d59785f50b1a72c175f18d652ccf0a06fda68a240ac4836088437e68f75b/DSC00869.JPG" /> click on images to enlarge This light that does not touch us, does not travel the whole distance, the light that gets lost, gives us the beauty of the world, so much of which is in the color blue. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go.- Rebecca Solnit, “The Blue of Distance,” A Fieldguide to Getting Lost Exhibition Walk-Through EXHIBITION STATEMENT In her essay, The Blue of Distance, Rebecca Solnit expounds on the very particular shade of blue that we see when looking toward the horizon. Think: mountains as seen from many milesaway across a great, flat desert. However, the mountains are not blue. Mountains are brown orgreen or gray or, most often, all of these at once. The blue we see when looking across great distances is actually a function of light waves being dispersed by molecules of air. The more atmosphere between viewer and object, the deeper this blue will appear. We can never reach this blue, never actually be in its presence. It only exists within the distance of great separation. Perhaps, she posits, we can savor this unattainability; the longing for something rather than the obtaining of the object of that longing; the blue rather than the mountains. The body of work represented in this show is my attempt to attend to place and time as a means of contending with the disorientation caused by their obscuration by and within capitalism. For each work I developed a relationship to a place, often harvesting a talisman object. Now, I attempt to triangulate myself by transposing that place/time and the iteration of myself that was there/then onto here/now. To do this, I pay attention to the physicality of the talismans. The artist Robert Irwin said, “Every object… has two levels of being. It has its imagery and how we read it, and it has what it actually is physically,” and describes Modernism as a process of removing society’s thought dependence on imagery in favor of reckoning with physicality, including space/environment. By using light, color, and motion to explore objects, this work foregrounds the physicality of both the object and the light, the phenomena of theirinteraction, and our sense experience of it all. In the face of the extreme and pervasive dehumanization of colonialist capitalism that sustains systemic violence, as evidenced by the ongoing genocide in Gaza, this show is a modest and sincere effort to contend with the grief, rage, and horror of it all, to reaffirm humanity, open space for our minds to take in this reality, what roles we play, to reconnect to our ability to judge the world for ourselves and remember our power to change it. Deep thanks to RACC for their generous support of this exhibition with an Art3Cs grant. https://pamelahadley.com/Wonder-Valley Fri, 09 Feb 2024 19:42:23 +0000 Pamela Hadley Studio https://pamelahadley.com/Wonder-Valley WONDER VALLEY 2023 Projection-Mapped Abstract&nbsp; Animation, Found Antique Budweiser Can, Plywood Housing, View Port (Steel, Rubber, Plastic, Fabric), Mojave Desert Sand, 12x34x18 inches, 3:00This piece was made using materials and footage collected while in residence at High Desert Test Sites, part of AZ-West, Joshua Tree, CA and was exhibited in Going Steady at Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR, Dec. 2-17, 2023. Access to the SE Portland Tool Library made this work possible. <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd78d76a254c0eefe55d2d15ced5d8d21d8a22b3f17564b8a7ee4366fcf09ae6/DSC04172.jpeg" data-mid="204314421" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bd78d76a254c0eefe55d2d15ced5d8d21d8a22b3f17564b8a7ee4366fcf09ae6/DSC04172.jpeg" /> <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf56a37205e70718c41f42cd1026ba0a0572d49ded3dcef9cb8caad9268287ba/DSC04219.jpeg" data-mid="204314422" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf56a37205e70718c41f42cd1026ba0a0572d49ded3dcef9cb8caad9268287ba/DSC04219.jpeg" /> <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0fff44816a41385d1598fad362e0fe78046d030323a9d4a9622071537b43c6c1/DSC04167.jpeg" data-mid="204314420" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0fff44816a41385d1598fad362e0fe78046d030323a9d4a9622071537b43c6c1/DSC04167.jpeg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89f29bb709c38f12fb2185ab6085bf024540f9f4d714f207c25fbfce531e2284/DSC04182.jpeg" data-mid="204314424" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/89f29bb709c38f12fb2185ab6085bf024540f9f4d714f207c25fbfce531e2284/DSC04182.jpeg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/695c079147dcf7c2bb13f846a423a877dc0cf46ba9c95372dfc0263ca662424d/DSC04184.jpeg" data-mid="204314425" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/695c079147dcf7c2bb13f846a423a877dc0cf46ba9c95372dfc0263ca662424d/DSC04184.jpeg" /> <img width="2827" height="3855" width_o="2827" height_o="3855" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b9fb22cbc8c73796af485f55cece3ad1b10c049670d7a1a88dc7a8015e14d40/Cute-Kid.jpg" data-mid="204320897" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b9fb22cbc8c73796af485f55cece3ad1b10c049670d7a1a88dc7a8015e14d40/Cute-Kid.jpg" /> click on images to enlarge Wonder Valley, 2023, is an abstract animation projection-mapped onto an antique Budweiser can housed within a wall-mounted viewing box and outfitted with a face rest view port. The box came first. It was a result of thinking through new ways to offer exciting and unique immersive moving light viewing experiences that are well-suited for display in a fully lit gallery surrounded by other artworks. The can came next. In September-October 2023, I was a work-trade artist-in-residence at High Desert Test Sites, part of Andrea Zittel’s AZ-West in Joshua Tree, CA. While there, some of us residents as well as staff took a drive out to Wonder Valley, CA, to look at permanent HDTS works who live within the desert. This locale, specifically, has been referred to by artist Jack Pierson as “a place known for those who drop off the edge of civilization.” Closer to Joshua Tree and Twenty-Nine Palms, there are BLM lands where people go to race ATVs, throw massive outdoor parties, or just sleep in their cars, building a fire to try to keep warm at night. Wonder Valley is so remote that it fails to attract such groups. However, its remoteness also makes it possible to use the land however you want, BLM or not. Here, in the heat of a late summer midday, the four of us walked through the fine, pale sand to find our way to the artworks as they stand surrounded by purple mountains in a distance that, in those flats, feels impossibly close at hand. Strewn around in the sand amongst the rocks and creosote is evidence of passersby: charred logs and, every now and then, a bit of random detritus. Ava picked up a white can, commenting on its appearance. She dropped it and we walked on. I got to thinking about the whiteness of it. An old pull tab can from 1980,&nbsp;it had been bleached by the brutal desert sun for over 40 years. The ghost of the Budweiser logo was still visible from certain angles. I went back and picked it up. In that beautiful and desolate place, the contrast of advertising campaigns -&nbsp; majestic Clydesdales and the Marlboro Man, remnants of the American cowboy and Manifest Destiny - against a country dotted with abandoned gold mines and decrepit jackrabbit homesteads, I was struck by the fallacy of it all, and the sorrow. This humble and discarded object quietly held a small part of a much larger story: the stripping of nature, indigenous cultures, the lives and freedom of all peoples of color, and humanity, even of the various waves of settlers and opportunists. With the massive military complexes nearby, I couldn’t help but imagine a Vietnam veteran, home for a handful of years, sitting in the desert by himself in the night with a small fire, a tepid Bud in his hand, and few options for any kind of a future. Buying the promises they sell us is sometimes a speedy path to misery and destitution. Reading Rebecca Solnit’s books River of Shadows and Savage Dreams, the former a treatise on western culture’s rupture from time and place, the latter a detailing of anti-nuclear efforts in the US and the origination of Yosemite National Park, had me observing even more closely than usual the landscape tourism that is our National Parks system. First, the original inhabitants were killed or pushed off. Then, places were re-named by white settlers to make them into wild and virginal substitutes for Eden, erasing their existence as generational homes, holy sites, and the beneficiaries of centuries of human stewardship. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cbc66d4f5d6adbdecef65f5f1c98138859ab2833307c3c677852870c1ae4b257/DSC04307.jpeg" data-mid="204314434" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cbc66d4f5d6adbdecef65f5f1c98138859ab2833307c3c677852870c1ae4b257/DSC04307.jpeg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8fbf0ca22ca3f25e6bd8300dfa93231d57ae4c7c0cbe597331306fda0740eb15/DSC04313.jpeg" data-mid="204314435" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8fbf0ca22ca3f25e6bd8300dfa93231d57ae4c7c0cbe597331306fda0740eb15/DSC04313.jpeg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83e4ab3c21879b9249edf1b5ca28266cb47b5136ed4fcc387ec83a77a0a1de19/DSC04317.jpeg" data-mid="204314436" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83e4ab3c21879b9249edf1b5ca28266cb47b5136ed4fcc387ec83a77a0a1de19/DSC04317.jpeg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/acbdc71762d90cb4caf440289b586c8975c3a5f6f2b6ffbf1b150c158d4904f6/DSC04319.jpeg" data-mid="204314437" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/acbdc71762d90cb4caf440289b586c8975c3a5f6f2b6ffbf1b150c158d4904f6/DSC04319.jpeg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ebe622c797f803614627d205d82ccbdad02eed053e2f162ecc8815110940c070/DSC04323.jpeg" data-mid="204314441" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ebe622c797f803614627d205d82ccbdad02eed053e2f162ecc8815110940c070/DSC04323.jpeg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d1f5d99c163c934e89226c462602f3e2c402adb1a0f136fe7c90f820d395bed/DSC04208.jpeg" data-mid="204314427" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2d1f5d99c163c934e89226c462602f3e2c402adb1a0f136fe7c90f820d395bed/DSC04208.jpeg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e9153fa07f32b2f6a2509404d5ec2a2f7ec7cbb812deff24c4fb08c6a331b85/DSC04325.jpeg" data-mid="204314443" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4e9153fa07f32b2f6a2509404d5ec2a2f7ec7cbb812deff24c4fb08c6a331b85/DSC04325.jpeg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8eab7a3c8e15eb1baa66b9be2abb5b9c5f77a91fa5004c86495a2bcc83779f45/DSC04329.jpeg" data-mid="204314446" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8eab7a3c8e15eb1baa66b9be2abb5b9c5f77a91fa5004c86495a2bcc83779f45/DSC04329.jpeg" /> The parks were created to protect exceptionally beautiful or important lands from the ravenous consumption of nature that took place in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Some places only achieved protected status after decades of lobbying by environmental groups and massive private financial contributions that the government was happy to accept. Now, hordes of people make pilgrimages to these sites every year for the express purpose of driving by them, or stopping briefly to take snapshots: taking a photo yourself of a place that’s been endlessly photographed by others, without ever even setting foot on the actual land. [My friend, the artist Erinn Kathryn, has an incredible series looking at exactly this phenomenon.] Nature as spectator sport. What a full-circle reflection of Solnit’s rupture. And corporations continuously increase profits as all of our time, our leisure, our relationships, have become financialized via neoliberalist policy and social media. I realized quickly that the can needed to be inside the box. The box makes the can a symbol. We can see it, experience its physical properties, especially as the animation moves across its form, but we can’t touch it or be in the same space as it. We are spectators. And, isn’t that exactly what so many of us crave? The feeling of being with beautiful places without actually being in them? Or, giving up our comfort? Without breaking the digital barrier? The pleasure of consumption without the inconvenience of relationship or vulnerability? The last detail was the sand. Before leaving HDTS, I’d gone back to the spot where we found the can to collect sand. I brought it, along with other desert treasures, talismans of place, back to Portland with me in the back of my Camry. The box took some engineering. Literally. How to make a light-tight box with a projector inside it was a pretty fun puzzle to solve. Fortunately, my wonderful partner is an engineer and has become a collaborator on the construction of my works. Once designed, I used tools from the SE Portland Tool Library to construct it. While carefully made, I chose to leave the box unfinished inside and out. This was so that it’s clear that the box is a vessel, not the main attraction. The viewport took a lot of planning. It was the way people would relate to the whole piece. It had to look and feel just right and give the right viewing angle and range. A new HDTS friend who also lives in Portland helped me by fabricating the steel shaft, contouring it to the VR headset face mount I’d bought for the rim. It took a lot of doing on my part to figure out how to attach all the components and mount it to the box so that it was sturdy, comfortable, and light-tight.&nbsp; Last came the video. I initially planned only to have animation on the can itself. Using simple white lines moving over a form reveals the complexity of that form in a way that never fails to excite me. Very quickly, though, I remembered the video of those purple mountains that frame Wonder Valley I’d taken from the back seat of the car as we drove out to the artworks that day. That’s the video playing behind and over the can. When installing Wonder Valley, I poured the sand under the can, wanting to recreate as much of its original place as possible. This work is, in some ways, very different from my previous works. I usually put the viewer in the environment with the objects and light; a bodily relationship. Here, the work and the viewer are kept apart. It doesn’t feel that way, though. Viewing this piece feels immersive, protected, and transportive. Encountering it within the gallery, as it glows from across the room with tempting hints of its dancing insides, feels exciting and playful. It holds the histories of early cinema (kinetoscopes, aka “peep shows”), tourism (coin binoculars), national parks, postcards, and advertising, most of which are the grandchildren of white supremacist imperialism, as well as the newness of digital media and finely-tuned projection-mapping. There’s a strange nostalgia and sadness to it, along with the thrill of the spectacle and oddity offered by the work itself. Mostly, though, what I feel in it is loss. It’s the loss of indigenous Americans who were and continue to be exterminated in the name of imperialist delusions, and the loss of humanity within the settler colonists themselves. Imperialism pays hush money to the privileged classes, but that does not exempt us from enslavement. We just believe the lie that we’re free. And we stand by, believing we’re blameless, while people are caged and slaughtered. https://pamelahadley.com/Channel Fri, 09 Feb 2024 03:23:36 +0000 Pamela Hadley Studio https://pamelahadley.com/Channel CHANNEL 2023 Site-Specific Immersive Media Installation: Projection-Mapped Abstract Animation inside a Converted Shipping Container: Plywood, Mattress, Bedding, 92x92x92 inches, 7:00This piece was made while in residence at High Desert Test Sites, part of AZ-West, Joshua Tree, CA. Still Images: click to enlarge <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/20f1aad790286156b1c38137b66f44d18485fb6aac79107eebc7184a0368277e/01_Beginning.jpg" data-mid="204263265" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/20f1aad790286156b1c38137b66f44d18485fb6aac79107eebc7184a0368277e/01_Beginning.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec7e55f63d4b4101c1c6877b947e7ffb8fb46c44334169b6e86903568f507294/04_Toward-End.jpg" data-mid="204263268" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec7e55f63d4b4101c1c6877b947e7ffb8fb46c44334169b6e86903568f507294/04_Toward-End.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d9c8490af9626bbd383ba8e34acd6259fee848f40b5849d3856620349b8cf13/02_First-Third.jpg" data-mid="204263266" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d9c8490af9626bbd383ba8e34acd6259fee848f40b5849d3856620349b8cf13/02_First-Third.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c9a044a09e9d4bb3376bdba3a4bef9fc4269ba5468f45fe8f663dd659678591/03_Apex.jpg" data-mid="204263267" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c9a044a09e9d4bb3376bdba3a4bef9fc4269ba5468f45fe8f663dd659678591/03_Apex.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fab466130090c39869b039ade292f250c8f5e08d8d197bee53de2772b2544a92/06_AngleView.jpg" data-mid="204263221" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fab466130090c39869b039ade292f250c8f5e08d8d197bee53de2772b2544a92/06_AngleView.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9345f0455b08210fc44ae99a240f50f52e2479e4e39f4715934b75a2f93bf27/05_RedGlow_01.jpg" data-mid="204263269" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9345f0455b08210fc44ae99a240f50f52e2479e4e39f4715934b75a2f93bf27/05_RedGlow_01.jpg" /> Channel was a site-specific immersive video experience. While completing a work trade residency at High Desert Test Sites, I lived in a shipping container that had been converted by Andrea Zittel into a living space, along with an outdoor kitchen, bathroom, and living room, on her property outside of Joshua Tree, CA. In typical Zittel style, it was minimal, thoughtful, and multifunctional: the desk became the bed platform, storage doubled as seating, and everything was made from plywood. I loved it. In true Hadley style, I turned my projector on and started tracing the corners where the walls met the ceiling and each other. Single-pixel-width lines emerged as light from those corners, expanding out to surround me as I sat on the floor looking up. Once it was moving, I could bathe myself in it by climbing into my bed. I was reading River of Shadows, Rebecca Solnit’s award-winning biography of Eadward Muybridge. Rather than a lesson in art history, it was a poetic exploration and scholarly analysis of the disembodiment of humanity’s relationship with time and space. This rupture, which came to define modernity, arrived with the proliferation of electricity, the railroad, and photography. Solnit described the advent of moving images as the merging of all three.&nbsp; On this residency, my main goal was to be intentionally non-productive. I needed to be, instead of do. I read. A lot. When I got restless, I hiked. I worked for the residency and hung out with the staff and artists. I listened to the quails, watched the sunset, and looked at the stars. I cried and journaled and collected rocks, cans, and dried cacti. I avoided social media and told myself I didn’t have to make anything. Actually, I said I wasn’t allowed to make anything unless I really wanted to. The point was to let go of productivity anxiety. And, it worked. &nbsp;&nbsp;[Please note: On this residency, I did not have access to a DSLR camera. All documentation was recorded on my mobile phone, which does a poor job of capturing such low-light video. I’m choosing to share the video because I’m proud of the work, if not the documentation.] Refusing to push myself, I went to bed when I was tired, woke up when I was sufficiently rested, ate when I was hungry, and indulged all of my impulses and curiosities. Not surprisingly, an energy and enthusiasm for things like putting new curatorial proposals together (proposals always make me feel drained) took me over. I had more ideas flowing into my mind than I knew what to do with. I was making deep connections between my personal trauma healing journey, Rebecca Solnit’s thesis on time and place, the landscape and nature tourism to which I was a witness on that trip, and the deeper societal ruptures and cognitive dissonance that seem to be the hallmark of the last century-and-a-half. Choosing to be rather than do was powerful. The work I ended up making challenged me to learn new coding and animation techniques. I thought that the straight lines would be too simple. But, the opposite was true: the lines were not perfectly straight on the computer screen and, as they climbed from one row of pixels to the next, each line became a wave. Indeed, the lines together appeared to ripple. As I animated, I had a strong impulse to bring a glowing redness to the center of the wall, the heart of the lines. Once it was there, I was struck by how much it reminded me of the first James Turrell piece I ever saw. I remember in my body what that work did to me. It upended my confidence in my ability to discern space, scale, and color. Yet, it wasn’t unnerving. It was calming. Expansive. So was this.&nbsp; I invited the other residents and HDTS staff to experience it. They, too, sat on the floor and hopped into the bed. They told me all the things it made them feel and think about. How they resisted at first because the slowness was hard. But they adjusted and then did not want to leave. In much the same way, I’d resisted the non-productivity of embeddedness. But I adjusted. I became a desert person, and when it came time to leave, I didn’t want to go. Back home in Portland, I miss Joshua Tree. I miss waking up as the sun rises and making my coffee outside while the quails coo and scurry around with perhaps a coyote down the hill. I knew where I was, and it gave me a sense of purpose. I was existing only for that. It’s very hard to maintain that embodied relationship to time and place when I’m running from work to home to meetings, trying to remember to cook, and do laundry, and move my body, and play. It’s hard to be a person when you’re busy making other people rich, trying to be a good partner and friend and child and sibling, while thousands are slaughtered and criminals run for office, and Elon blows up space shuttles while houseless people dig through my dumpsters for returnables. I’m thankful to have the luxury of struggling to remember what it’s like to live in my body, connected to the land, in time with the sun. I will keep striving to remember and to share my efforts so that others might also have access to things that feel like time and place.&nbsp; https://pamelahadley.com/Eagle-Creek Sat, 17 Dec 2022 03:35:30 +0000 Pamela Hadley Studio https://pamelahadley.com/Eagle-Creek <img width="5040" height="4397" width_o="5040" height_o="4397" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bec21eb4a79e586c9939cb8299e675ec2729ba3d802be8d949d4bf5f9b3c7759/PamelaHadley_AfterTime_1122-09.jpg" data-mid="166281457" border="0" alt="Image by Simone Fischer" data-caption="Image by Simone Fischer" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bec21eb4a79e586c9939cb8299e675ec2729ba3d802be8d949d4bf5f9b3c7759/PamelaHadley_AfterTime_1122-09.jpg" /> <img width="5516" height="4187" width_o="5516" height_o="4187" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3107c8dd1a6fe6d6f2b89bf15655dc2c3cdc99508e56682941149eeee24c9170/PamelaHadley_AfterTime_1122-10.jpg" data-mid="166281458" border="0" alt="Image by Simone 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src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4041cf43d612f4006dfb7dd3816b5099f899c07b0250bccc074ad95af3fa5db1/PamelaHadley_AfterTime_1122-26-copy-2.jpg" /> <img width="3600" height="2401" width_o="3600" height_o="2401" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e9a331ad2b6f0d6d738a6f370bb5615836be16ef581c86d94d87a2d63220da6/PamelaHadley_AfterTime_1122-27-copy-2.jpg" data-mid="166359799" border="0" alt="Image by Simone Fischer" data-caption="Image by Simone Fischer" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e9a331ad2b6f0d6d738a6f370bb5615836be16ef581c86d94d87a2d63220da6/PamelaHadley_AfterTime_1122-27-copy-2.jpg" /> EAGLE CREEK 2022 Found Wood, Projection-Mapped Abstract Animation, LED Circuit, Arduino, Fabric Light Diffuser, 16 x 7 x 4 in. Viewing Chamber: White Pine 2x4s, Hardware, Blackout Curtains, Tension Wire, Stools, 10x14x8 ft., 7:00. Access to the SE Portland Tool Library made this work possible.&nbsp; <img width="2400" height="1654" width_o="2400" height_o="1654" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a32ae910e2b2b5674a50a6f8ed6c3a8de6caeadb29e866fdcdf441678e810cd3/PamelaHadley_AfterTime_1122-01-copy-2_Cropped.jpg" data-mid="175016013" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a32ae910e2b2b5674a50a6f8ed6c3a8de6caeadb29e866fdcdf441678e810cd3/PamelaHadley_AfterTime_1122-01-copy-2_Cropped.jpg" /> <img width="2401" height="3600" width_o="2401" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e4d48f0351ac122f78638e87d23f2ffd2957b0e4bf8c4435d4d32e3cd6839d1/PamelaHadley_AfterTime_1122-17-copy-2.jpg" data-mid="166359790" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e4d48f0351ac122f78638e87d23f2ffd2957b0e4bf8c4435d4d32e3cd6839d1/PamelaHadley_AfterTime_1122-17-copy-2.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1033" width_o="1500" height_o="1033" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a39182c7b3a80b297aca0cb24c1d1f56f9a01e046400e94e235854993ff50fce/IMG_2070_Color.jpg" data-mid="175016016" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a39182c7b3a80b297aca0cb24c1d1f56f9a01e046400e94e235854993ff50fce/IMG_2070_Color.jpg" /> Image credits: Simone FischerImage credits: Simone Fischer Eagle Creek was exhibited by after/time collective (Portland, OR) in the group show “after/image 01: the third terrain.” It was the inaugural show in after/time’s satellite space in downtown Portland. Work Statement: Eagle Creek centers on a piece of wood I recovered while hiking the trail in the Columbia River Gorge that bears the same name. As many in the Portland area are aware, in 2017, there was a massive fire at Eagle Creek. This specimen very conspicuously wears the evidence of its lived experience. Rippled, smooth, and almost shiny on one side, charred with dirt and bits of moss on the other, it appears to be a layer of softwood that was separated from both the bark and the deeper layers of hardwood during the fire. Its waves fascinate me. Did the high water content in this layer experience something like boiling as it was overcome with flames? What exactly has it gone through? Hiking through burned areas is a hauntingly beautiful experience; the burned-black bark and shiny exposed silver wood, the fallen bodies of downed trees, the bright green of new growth, the fluffy white tops of fireweed. It feels at once dangerous, peaceful, mournful, and optimistic. The forest has lost what it once was and will now become something new. In this installation, elements were made with precise consideration to specific material qualities as well as my personhood at the time. Everything is painstakingly calibrated so as to complicate the reading of image, material, space, and light. Housed within a viewing chamber that has been designed and constructed explicitly for this show, they create a time and space of phenomenological judgment in which we use our senses to perceive and relate directly to the physical world. &nbsp;David Raskin says, “credible art keeps the universe open, providing transitions rather than meanings.” I don’t have answers for the world’s problems. I do hope that this work might offer an opportunity to momentarily exist outside of dominant structures, thereby revealing the incredible power we have to imagine something different. This work isn’t trying to sell you anything. It just asks us to look and feel, and to be aware of the processes by which we look and feel. And maybe we can try to keep doing that out in the world.&nbsp; Watch the full video: