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In Between
Ciarra K. Walters (bio)
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Untitled (Clothed and Asleep), Mount Desert Island, Maine, 2020.
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Self-portraiture is the way I navigate myself back to my body. For years, my body did not feel like it belonged to me until I started photographing myself in the vast landscapes of California. Running barefoot, jumping into frame with seconds to spare, and waiting for that sharp click of my film camera made me feel alive. Physically touching the earth revealed an undeniable connection between my spirit and that of Nature. The mystical wisdom of the Universe unraveled once I was among Earth's trees, mountains, deserts, and waters. In the most core-shaking moments of my life, I learned to return to these places to move beyond this physical form and ground my spiritual self. This routine would be the medicine I used during my mother's battle with cancer, the pandemic, and the uncertainty of the future in 2020.
At the beginning of that tumultuous year, the crisp air of Maine was calling me. It was the same call I felt six summers before, and I knew this would be my summer of return. I was on a quest for a moment of safety, security, and stability. For three days, I secluded myself in Desert Island, Maine, where I would insert my body in the earth and rocks. It felt as if these cracks and openings were inviting me in, holding space for a body that was scared and overwhelmed by thoughts of the past, present, and future. My bare skin between those cold, smooth rocks rooted my anxious spirit.
In Between taught me the power of stepping into the unknown space. In this series, my body serves as the bridge connecting two parts that used to be one, finding solace in the between phases of life. Witnessing nature's physical transformations served as a reminder that change is inevitable. Our body comes from the Earth and will eventually belong to the Earth again.
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Untitled (Between Pressure #2), Mount Desert Island, Maine, 2020.
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From Art in the Streets, Hyattsville, Maryland, 2020.
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Untitled (Between Pressure), Mount Desert Island, Maine, 2020.
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From Art in the Streets, Dumbo, Brooklyn, 2020.
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Untitled (Ground Studies #1), Mount Desert Island, Maine, 2020.
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From Art in the Streets, Lower East Side, New York, 2020.
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Untitled (Naked and Awake), Mount Desert Island, Maine, 2020.
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From Art In the Streets, Dumbo, Brooklyn, 2020.
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Ciarra K. Walters
ciarra k. walters is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans sculpture, ceremonial performance, silkscreen, photography, and film, documenting cycles of transformation. A recent MFA graduate of photography + media & society at The Maryland Institute College of Art, she is currently based in Baltimore, Maryland.
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In the foreword to the first issue of the The Southern Literary Journal, published in November 1968, founding editors Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and C. Hugh Holman outlined the journal"s objectives: "To study the significant body of southern writing, to try to understand its relationship to the South, to attempt through it to understand an interesting and often vexing region of the American Union, and to do this, as far as possible, with good humor, critical tact, and objectivity--these are the perhaps impossible goals to which The Southern Literary Journal is committed." Since then The Southern Literary Journal has published hundreds of essays by scholars of southern literature examining the works of southern writers and the ongoing development of southern culture.
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