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rhea banker
rhea banker
Long inspired by the stories of the Earth held within distant lands edged by the sea, Rhea Banker has created a body of photo-based work that explores the past, present, and potential future held within the planet’s ever- changing crust.
As the source of her work, she has spent the past 30 years focusing on the North Atlantic in which some of the oldest rocks on Earth expose their travels through time. She focuses on specific locations from both a macro and a micro point of view. Much like scientists who participate in field studies, Rhea does photographic recordings of her finds, brings them back to her studio, and begins her narration with the textures, colors, and light she finds in the field.
Sharing a common early geology, much of her time has been spent in the Outer Hebrides and the West coast of Greenland. As part of these journeys, Banker often focuses very closely on small areas to tell large stories. The Island of Lewis, with very distinct and varying landscapes has particularly been her subject for many years.
Her latest work is a study of a small tidal island on the Isle of Lewis called Eilean Meinish. It sits at the point where Loch Miavaig meets the beautiful Loch Roag on its way to the sea. The island is only accessible at low tide and its circumference can be walked in 20 minutes. But the combination of sea, wind, stone and vegetation yields a moving story of becoming and continuing, as a symbol of changes now apparent everywhere.
rhea banker
Long inspired by the stories of the Earth held within distant lands edged by the sea, Rhea Banker has created a body of photo-based work that explores the past, present, and potential future held within the planet’s ever- changing crust.
As the source of her work, she has spent the past 30 years focusing on the North Atlantic in which some of the oldest rocks on Earth expose their travels through time. She focuses on specific locations from both a macro and a micro point of view. Much like scientists who participate in field studies, Rhea does photographic recordings of her finds, brings them back to her studio, and begins her narration with the textures, colors, and light she finds in the field.
Sharing a common early geology, much of her time has been spent in the Outer Hebrides and the West coast of Greenland. As part of these journeys, Banker often focuses very closely on small areas to tell large stories. The Island of Lewis, with very distinct and varying landscapes has particularly been her subject for many years.
Her latest work is a study of a small tidal island on the Isle of Lewis called Eilean Meinish. It sits at the point where Loch Miavaig meets the beautiful Loch Roag on its way to the sea. The island is only accessible at low tide and its circumference can be walked in 20 minutes. But the combination of sea, wind, stone and vegetation yields a moving story of becoming and continuing, as a symbol of changes now apparent everywhere.