Lamson Library and Learning Commons proudly presents the photography of New Hampshire artist and PSU alum, Keri McLeod. This collection of six silver gelatin prints is McLeod’s reflection on the Wilderness Act of 1964, which “provides criteria for determining suitability and establishes restrictions on activities that can be undertaken on a designated area told. McLeod states, the act “told Americans that they could enter certain lands but it urged them to make their visits brief, leaving no mark of their passage.” Evidence of cultural objects within distinctly natural landscapes reminds the viewer of the complex relationship between nature and culture.
Keri McLeod’s photographs will be on display in Lamson Library fromFebruary 5th through June 4th, 2010.
McLeod describes her work through this statement: “My photographs represent the complex relationship between nature and culture, specifically what I consider to be our current landscape. Over time, our society has separated itself spiritually from nature. Human nature has become far from conscientious and has attached itself to a more important relationship: that of economics. We have become a replace, not a repair society. These images are a variation of the different stages in which the circular balance and tension between nature and culture exists, in which I believe nature will ultimately prevail.”
