Jen MacIntyre
Confluence Love and Loss
Photographs
Photographs
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Artist Statement: This collection of photographs draws from images that I made in Argentina in 2019, the Salish Sea in 2021 and others, closer to home, in Vermont. At the time I was photographing in Argentina I was working through a lot of grief and was moved by the resilience of the desert; the plants, creatures and landscapes that persist in the harshest of conditions, where water is the most precious of things. |
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Water is something I have been photographing for years so it was interesting to be where there is such a scarcity of this defining element of our planet. Its existence means that so may we. It functions as a metaphor for both impermanence and life itself. I’m constantly inspired by its ever-changing nature freely moving from liquid to snow, ice, mist or cloud and by the infinite forms and textures when combined with light.
Moving through grief is something that we all must do at different times in our lives. It’s as natural and beyond our control as the changing of the seasons. One thing that strikes me is the paradox of how we can hold many, seemingly conflicting feelings in our heart at all at once. We are a confluence of love and loss. Filmmaker, Werner Herzog once said that “nature is murder” which is not untrue, but at the same time it is the great healer.
Artist Bio:
Jen MacIntyre grew up in Northern Ontario, Canada, has lived in Upstate New York, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Vermont but has been calling Montreal, Quebec home since 2007. She holds a BFA in Art and Film History, and is currently finishing her photography degree at Concordia University. She is the co-creator of the Mile- End’s Galerie Monastiraki, has worked as the Visual Arts Curator for the Osheaga festival, and as a docent at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. She has been taking photographs since childhood. She is also a massage therapist, writer and musician. Her photographic practice includes video installation work, nature based photography, as well as portraiture.
Recent projects include Unconditional, which is a series of portraits of people and their significant animal friends that have been essential to them through the Covid-19 pandemic, Meditations on Ice which is a macro digital exploration of the visual effects, and abstract forms produced by light on natural ice formations, and The Costume Project, an ongoing portrait series in large format film of children in their homemade costumes in outdoor spaces.
Jen’s photographic practice is informed by a deep appreciation of nature and by seeking the threads that connect us to each other and with our extraordinary and delicate planet.
For inquires, please contact the artist at haikugreen@gmail.com.
You can follow Jen at www.instagram.com/jen.macintyre_
Moving through grief is something that we all must do at different times in our lives. It’s as natural and beyond our control as the changing of the seasons. One thing that strikes me is the paradox of how we can hold many, seemingly conflicting feelings in our heart at all at once. We are a confluence of love and loss. Filmmaker, Werner Herzog once said that “nature is murder” which is not untrue, but at the same time it is the great healer.
Artist Bio:
Jen MacIntyre grew up in Northern Ontario, Canada, has lived in Upstate New York, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Vermont but has been calling Montreal, Quebec home since 2007. She holds a BFA in Art and Film History, and is currently finishing her photography degree at Concordia University. She is the co-creator of the Mile- End’s Galerie Monastiraki, has worked as the Visual Arts Curator for the Osheaga festival, and as a docent at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. She has been taking photographs since childhood. She is also a massage therapist, writer and musician. Her photographic practice includes video installation work, nature based photography, as well as portraiture.
Recent projects include Unconditional, which is a series of portraits of people and their significant animal friends that have been essential to them through the Covid-19 pandemic, Meditations on Ice which is a macro digital exploration of the visual effects, and abstract forms produced by light on natural ice formations, and The Costume Project, an ongoing portrait series in large format film of children in their homemade costumes in outdoor spaces.
Jen’s photographic practice is informed by a deep appreciation of nature and by seeking the threads that connect us to each other and with our extraordinary and delicate planet.
For inquires, please contact the artist at haikugreen@gmail.com.
You can follow Jen at www.instagram.com/jen.macintyre_