FEBRUARY 2025
SOUTH GALLERY
The Egg Series, a Collection of Related Images | Susan Johnson
This project came into my life while adapting to sudden retirement and trying to deal with the isolation of my first long Winter in Kasilof. When it’s well below zero, it is way too cold to bring a camera outside. Despite that brutal cold, every day my Nine chickens were producing beautiful multicolored Eggs. They were not my usual subjects, and shooting indoors was a real change for me. I’d rather capture big dreamy landscapes outdoors, but this project proved to be a perfect way to keep shooting throughout the Winter.
After the editing and proofing were done, and when the prints were laid out on the table, I began to see how well the images related to each other. The layouts, shapes and colors formed into triptychs fairly naturally, and a concept was created out of chaos. These images were meant to stand alone, but since they all worked so well together, new visual relationships were created between the individual pieces, and the parts became a whole.
