In lieu of the camera, Carra Garza's creative tool is a flatbed scanner, which renders each subject in high optical resolution and a limited depth of field. The resulting images are printed as photographs and re-imagined through a mixed media process. Layers of wax, oil stick, pastel, and transfer are employed as symbols of change and unpredictability that occurs as the evolving natural world journeys through a continuous passage of seasons and time.
While Kari Englehardt's body of work focuses on the intersection between specific native plants that freely grow on either side of the Texas-Mexico border and the possible barriers to their evolutionary success. Their presence in the region is based on a complex relationship to the environment where they form a biological community irrespective of political borders and nation states.
In lieu of the camera, Carra Garza's creative tool is a flatbed scanner, which renders each subject in high optical resolution and a limited depth of field. The resulting images are printed as photographs and re-imagined through a mixed media process. Layers of wax, oil stick, pastel, and transfer are employed as symbols of change and unpredictability that occurs as the evolving natural world journeys through a continuous passage of seasons and time.
While Kari Englehardt's body of work focuses on the intersection between specific native plants that freely grow on either side of the Texas-Mexico border and the possible barriers to their evolutionary success. Their presence in the region is based on a complex relationship to the environment where they form a biological community irrespective of political borders and nation states.
In lieu of the camera, Carra Garza's creative tool is a flatbed scanner, which renders each subject in high optical resolution and a limited depth of field. The resulting images are printed as photographs and re-imagined through a mixed media process. Layers of wax, oil stick, pastel, and transfer are employed as symbols of change and unpredictability that occurs as the evolving natural world journeys through a continuous passage of seasons and time.
While Kari Englehardt's body of work focuses on the intersection between specific native plants that freely grow on either side of the Texas-Mexico border and the possible barriers to their evolutionary success. Their presence in the region is based on a complex relationship to the environment where they form a biological community irrespective of political borders and nation states.