Artist StatEment
With dirt under my nails, my heart jumps as my hand brushes against a worm in the soil. I am reminded of the world that thrives underground, unsettled by the mystery that is at my fingertips. Analogous to scenes from a natural history museum, flora and fauna take center stage to illustrate that we are always tied to migration, evolution, and metamorphosis. The surface is not a border, but an entrance to homes, nurseries, highways, and graveyards.
My photographic approach aims to create curious representations of ecosystems while referring to place and memory. In addition to a camera, I use a flatbed scanner to capture a level of detail that the camera cannot compete with, playful perspective, and an odd sense of light. I am attracted to making work that takes time and find the layering of processes necessary in my artistic discovery. I approach a chosen space like an amateur biologist; observing, sketching, noting, photographing specimens and scanning the scene with a scanner. Once I have ‘collected’ the scene, I begin the process of visually telling the story of what I saw, and who (or what) may live among us, through compositing the elements together into a visual narrative.
My photographic approach aims to create curious representations of ecosystems while referring to place and memory. In addition to a camera, I use a flatbed scanner to capture a level of detail that the camera cannot compete with, playful perspective, and an odd sense of light. I am attracted to making work that takes time and find the layering of processes necessary in my artistic discovery. I approach a chosen space like an amateur biologist; observing, sketching, noting, photographing specimens and scanning the scene with a scanner. Once I have ‘collected’ the scene, I begin the process of visually telling the story of what I saw, and who (or what) may live among us, through compositing the elements together into a visual narrative.
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Bio
Melinda Hurst Frye works within themes of ecology and place through photographs and scans of the Pacific Northwest landscape. By way of observation, experimentation, and slow investigation in the field, her imagery refers to the mysterious activity of urban and forested ecosystems layered with a sense of place.
Melinda Hurst Frye is an artist and educator based in Seattle, Washington. Hurst Frye holds an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design, a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art, and has been featured on Humble Arts Foundation,
Lenscratch, WIRED Photo. Melinda may be found digging holes, collecting and raising insects, while learning and making work about the biology of the northwest region and beyond.
Subscribe HERE for updates on projects, exhibitions and a preview of upcoming, new work.
Work featured by Charley Locke on Wired Photo, Mother FStop, Blend Images, RealClearLife, Lenscratch and Lensculture
Interview on process and concept by Jon Feinstein for Humble Arts Foundation
melinda@mhurstfrye.com
206-601-2881
Melinda Hurst Frye is an artist and educator based in Seattle, Washington. Hurst Frye holds an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design, a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art, and has been featured on Humble Arts Foundation,
Lenscratch, WIRED Photo. Melinda may be found digging holes, collecting and raising insects, while learning and making work about the biology of the northwest region and beyond.
Subscribe HERE for updates on projects, exhibitions and a preview of upcoming, new work.
Work featured by Charley Locke on Wired Photo, Mother FStop, Blend Images, RealClearLife, Lenscratch and Lensculture
Interview on process and concept by Jon Feinstein for Humble Arts Foundation
melinda@mhurstfrye.com
206-601-2881
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