From Box 13 Artspace:

"BOX 13 ArtSpace is pleased to present in our Front BOX gallery Myth + Memory photo-based work by Rebecca Finley and Carol Hayman. This exhibition uses photography to explore our understanding of recollection and storytelling. Rebecca Finley’s work deals with photographic truth and distorted memories. While Carol Hayman’s work suggests myths, allegories, and daydreams in a dreamworld of cosmic nature, evoking notions of disappearance, deconstruction, and self-effacement.

Carol Hayman

Artist Statement

These current works are monochrome photo intaglio prints, from original photographs by the artist. They are printed on BFK Rives, bark paper, and chine collé washi paper, with Charbonnel ink at Slugfest Print Studio in Austin, Texas. The themes deal with mythology and myth-making attached to objects and locations from urban legends to Native-American and Aboriginal story-telling, with Greek, Roman, Japanese, and Norse mythology, heroes, sheroes, and super-heroes, in comic books, sci-fi tales, and ghost stories told around a campfire. These prints give homage to indigenous ways of knowing through stylized, semi-abstracted figurations depicting a potential narrative sequence. Shadows of mythical stories haunt the landscapes, alluding to creation stories. The work suggests myths, allegories, and daydreams in a dreamworld of cosmic nature, evoking notions of disappearance, deconstruction, and self-effacement. The mythological world is part of being human. These prints bridge past and present, the mystical and concrete. We are part of a network of enduring life forms and the world is a better place if we understand each other and bring ourselves into balance with the land around us, difficult, but we can start with stories of our origins.

Bio

Carol Hayman @hayman.carol, photographer and printmaker, lives in Austin, Texas where she is a retired Professor of Anthropology from Austin Community College. She prints at Slugfest Print Studio, where her photographs become fine art prints or photo etchings, using polymer plates, an intaglio American French Tool press, handmade paper from France, Mexico, and Japan, with Charbonnel ink. She has exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally in Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Japan, England, France, Spain, and Bulgaria. Her work is included in the collections of the University of Wisconsin Madison Archive, SGCI Archive at Kennesaw State University, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, Bradbury Art Museum, Woodlands School Art Trust, University Health System San Antonio, and the Illinois Institute of Art Chicago. She has completed residencies with the Coronado Studio Serie Print Project and with the University of Texas at Casa Herrera in Antigua, Guatemala.

Website: https://carolhayman.weebly.com/

Instagram: @hayman.carol

Rebecca Finley

Artist Statement

This work is from my project, Fragmented Memory , which deals with photographic truth and distorted memories. I am also interested in the Rashomon effect and how people remember the same experience differently based on their own perspective. I sustained memory loss as a

result of a car accident twenty years ago, and while working on a project about my hometown in Tennessee, I dropped my hard drive resulting in a loss of digital memory. I became interested in the bent and fragmented images that were retrieved. I layer photographic data much as we edit and layer our recollections of past events. We do this without even realizing it. Photographs often help fill in these gaps when contemplating the past. Do we really remember, or have we just convinced ourselves of the memory because we’ve seen evidence that the moment happened? This work has served as a way of processing a traumatic event that occurred twenty years ago. It is also about living during a global pandemic and seeing mass amounts of disinformation. Every day I question how we are all living in this time with a different set of truths and conflicting information. We are only absorbing information that supports our own narratives. I am trying to find order in all the chaos.

Bio

Rebecca Finley is an artist who is originally from Knoxville, Tennessee and has lived in East

Texas since 2005. She received her MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and her BA in Media Arts from The University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Rebecca currently holds the position of Professor of Art, Photography at Sam Houston State University where she is also the Graduate Coordinator for the MFA in Arts & Social Practices and Photography Program Coordinator. Rebecca’s current photo-based work deals with artifice, photographic truth, and nature. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Internationally.

Website: http://rebeccafinleyphoto.com"