Interview with Cig Harvey: YOU Look At ME Like An EMERGENCY

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Interview with Cig Harvey: YOU Look At ME Like An EMERGENCY – LENSCRATCH

Sometimes you come across work you fall in love with, work that resonates with you in such a deep way, and you begin seeing the world through the lens and point of view of a great image maker.  I have been a fan of Cig Harvey’s photographs from the moment I encountered her way of

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2012/06/interview-with-cig-harvey-you-look-at/

Cig is a visual painter, creating images that shimmer with color and gesture, that have the punctuation and staccto of red berries, purple finger nails, or a diving bell.  She speaks to memory, to moments, to quiet and beauty, and never loses her connection to the natural world.  Her work is a sensory experience, where you feel what she feels when she captured the dapple of summer sunlight on skin or the splash of water that is a color only our memories seem to hold