Evan Coleman is a Houston based artist who uses photographic
installations to bring the unconscious of place into light. She's interested in
the actions that create the spirit of places, and the unconscious layering of
history that provides the metaphysical energy which creates the
environmental and social ecosystems of the present. She seeks to give
photographs a means of establishing physical presence through the
juxtaposition of weighty materials, often utilizing construction debris left
behind from a city that is in a constant state of shedding away and
regrowth to provide a physical representation of the working human
element in these forms the landscape is made of. Her work is born out of a
desire for dialogue with the rhythm of our surroundings which link together
critical experience. It is human nature to strengthen one’s love for the past.
To idealize. Memory is a sense that is carried by faith, and at the same
time this foundation can fall apart at any moment. In this, the unknown,
unrecorded, unconscious of the past is brought and made real in a
terraforming of the present. Traditional photography is the core of her
artistic practice, but her pieces are ultimately a meditation.