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Penelope Stewart is an artist, curator/writer and publisher whose multi-disciplinary practice encompasses expansive architectural installations/interventions, alternative photography, artist books, and works on paper. Re-current themes address notions of cultural memory, of time and space and a considered approach to the relationship between objects, architecture, gardens, landscape and the places between – places to intervene, inhabit and above all activate. Whether it has been historic sites such as Musée Barthète, a small museum in France, or a museum like the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY or the deconstruction/reconstruction of a 19 th century book of botany using cyanotype, her intentions are to create sensory spaces, haptic experiences, transforming our perceptions and possible readings of space, time and memory.

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Ruin Gazing – paradise gardens volume 1

Ruin Gazing: Paradise Gardens Volume 1

In ruins we seek the poetic enchantment of enduring material fragments of the past, in order to steal a glimpse of the future. [1]

Ruin Gazing Volume 1: paradise gardens is a collection of thirty-six stereoscopic photo cards photographed and created by the artist that reflect a preliminary study of formal gardens as another constructed vision of Eden. Each card set consists of dual images, each representing a slightly different perspective of the same object. This twinning creates a perception or illusion of space and depth when viewed through vintage viewers. Further this collection of images folds in time as each representation floats between a specific past and a simulation of that time in the present.

36 stereoscopic cards 7” x 3.8”.

[1] Law, Jenn, “All That Remains”, essay to accompany Vanitas, an exhibition at the Koffler Gallery 2014

strong>Click below to view the entire collection of Stereoscopic cards

page 1 1-8  |  page 2 9-16  |  page 3 17-24  |  page 4 25-32  | page 5 33-36

06 no 16 greenhouse steroscopic card