J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with S. Billie Mandle
Episode #47, Summary
S. Billie Mandle’s visual incantation of human traces of the intangible experience of forgiveness.
Episode Notes
Using a large format camera with available light, Mandle compiles 40 color images of confessionals within Catholic churches across America. In illuminating spaces containing moments of grace, Reconciliation offers viewers the opportunity to seek, witness, and contemplate experiences of their own.
In this conversation, S. Billie Mandle discusses, among other things:
Correlations between confessionals and cameras
Photographers as collectors
Ways we create meaning as individuals and a society
Research impacting and shaping a project
Benefits of a design studio
Quieting color
Following affinities
Cold emailing for collaborators
Embodying paradox
Impact of oppressive societal structures
Referenced in the episode
Night of the Fiestas - Kirsten Valdez Quade
Images As Action and Reflection Panel
Mass Cultural Council Berkshire Taconic Artist Resource Trust Fund
Rebecca Solnit - The Blue of Distance
Culture As Catalyst - Isolde Brielmaier
Sovereignty of Quiet - Kevin Everod Quashie
The Land in Between - Ursula Schulz-Dornburg
The Poetics of Space - Gaston Bachelard
Published by Kehrerverlag