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Windsor Photographer Exhibits at Windsor Art Center
PAUL ESSENFELD

Ann Hodgdon-Cyr has three of her framed photographs for sale at the Windsor Art Center Store at 20 Mechanic Street across from the Train Station.

The store is open Thursdays 6-8 p.m. Saturdays 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Sundays 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Following is Ann Hodgdon-Cyr's ARTIST STATEMENT:

“There must be something in the man who makes the photograph which has something to say to the mind or heart....” Imogen Cunningham

I have been greatly influenced by Imogen Cunningham.  By her images of fragments of the body, by her use of light and shadow.  The face and the body say something to my mind and heart representing for me the human condition.  To me the face reveals or hides the inner person, the body strips everything down to basics, the surface of the flesh, the forms created by the muscles and bones.  I see these basic forms as a metaphor for human survival and I work with dark and light, gritty textures and fragmented body imagery, to paint the raw tenor or my images.  For me the camera is my paint brush, with the finished canvas lurking in the dark room.

 The sculpturer Rodin said something which I experience often when starting a photographic work: “Sometimes, looking at a model you think you have nothing.  Than all at once a little of nature reveals itself, a strip of flesh appears and then this shred of truth conveys the whole truth and enables you to arise a single bound to the absolute principle of things.”

You can see more of her work at http://www.hodgdon-cyr.com/