Artist Research, Linda Connor: Odyssey

Linda Connor's Odyssey series explores sacred religious sites from around the world, as well as focusing on astronomical subject matter. Her Odyssey images were exhibited at the RISD museum in Rhode Island, in the catalogue she describes her images as an attempt "to point toward the unfathomable and the unutterable" Connor seeks out places and phenomena that dwarf us and I think that this is evident in her work, particularly her astronomical images. I really like the formal qualities of Connors images, she uses an 8x10 camera, she then makes contact prints from the large negatives which she fixes in gold chloride for a burnished, bronzed look.