This is a series of mixed media image transfers on 8x10” paper, first shown at the Bay Road Gallery in Brooklin, Maine in August 2022. A small selection of framed pieces from this series can now be found at Project A in Canmore, Alberta. The title of the series is Ode to Sea.
statement
Each of these mixed media works is a tiny love letter to Maine, to this peninsula where I first learned what it is to belong to a place. I made them in my studio in British Columbia, pulling from an ongoing archive of photos I’ve taken while visiting my family, my original home. It is no accident that they are individual glimpses held together in a relational way, the colors and shapes holding them in conversation with one another. This is true to my experience of being here, of being in community, of feeling connected even from afar. For a Mainer living many miles from Maine, there is a special magic in the embedded sense of home that I carry with me. It was formed in a million tiny moments through my childhood and it continues to be nourished each time I return.
biography
Claire Dibble is a photographer, writer, and project-based artist who lives and works in Golden, British Columbia. The daughter of a boatbuilder and a botanist, Claire grew up in Blue Hill where she was encouraged from an early age to make things, to be curious, and to walk in the woods as often as possible. The impact of this early guidance was substantial, laying the foundation for her creative practice which to this day relies on time in nature, listening and noticing. She has participated in residencies in various locations, including aboard a ship in the Arctic. One of her largest projects to date involved building a kayak and paddling it the full length of the Columbia River, a 3.5 month photographic journey in 2019.