La Petite Mort Gallery

Photograph, 32 X 40” (print) $1500 / 40 x 60” (framed) Edition 1/5 $2200Photograph, 16 X 20” (print) $800 / 32 x 40” (framed) Edition 1/5 $1200Photograph, 16 X 20” (print) $800 / 32 x 40” (framed) Edition 1/5 $1200Photograph, 16 X 20” (print) $800 / 32 x 40” (framed) Edition 1/5 $1200Photograph, 32 X 40” (print) $1500 / 40 x 60” (framed) Edition 1/5 $2200Photograph, 16 X 20” (print) $800 / 32 x 40” (framed) Edition 1/5 $1200Photograph, 16 X 20” (print) $800 / 32 x 40” (framed) Edition 1/5 $1200Photograph, 32 X 40” (print) $1500 / 40 x 60” (framed) Edition 1/5 $2200Photograph, 16 X 20” (print) $800 / 32 x 40” (framed) Edition 1/5 $1200Photograph, 16 X 20” (print) $800 / 32 x 40” (framed) Edition 1/5 $1200

Whitney Lewis-Smith

How does a being or organism retain experience?  Why do these experiences change and fade over time?  Without memory nothing can be gained and nothing is lost.  These animals have no memories left of their own.  I aim to build new meaning by bringing them to life through the creation of new moments remembered by the photograph.  The process I have undertaken to make these images is laborious and slow.  Through the glass negative I experience them as tangible moments, beyond the quick click of a shutter.  The animals, my medium and I slowly build photographs together.

Whitney Lewis-Smith is a photo-based artist who currently lives in Ottawa.  She works exclusively in alternative photographic processes.