Work samples
About Ariana

Ariana Mygatt is an artist educator working professionally in public school education and photography. She runs the photography program and teaches all levels of photo at Parkville High School. Her visual arts practice is primarily film photography, investigating the genre of landscape and place through visually poignant moments and spaces created within our natural and unnatural surroundings. She also considers her role as educator to be an extension of her artistic practice. Ariana is… more
You Cannot Have This Place
You Cannot Have This Place is a portrait of a man, my father, in his home of nearly a century. It is also a record of this land and these woods. Of corners of his rooms. Of his molds spreading beneath paint. Of maintenance. Of things cut down and grown and cut down again, or of wondering when and where they will fall. Of things built and things buried, of things bloomed or blown up, of things dropped and forgotten, lost in the weeds. And of the accumulated ghosts of generations of children playing in the dirt, of dead dogs and deer, of ex wives and widows, of cars rotting under leaves, of coming and going, of ancestors. Of things no one wants and no one can have. But for my singular desperation for it, for another hundred years. And of the end in sight.
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Blueprint
Archival Inkjet Print from 35mm film, 2024
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Doronicum
Archival Inkjet Print from 35mm film, 2024
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Neighbors
Archival Inkjet Print from 35mm film, 2023
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Last one 2
Archival Inkjet Print from 35mm film, 2024
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All of this / At the pool
Archival Inkjet Print from 35mm film, 2023
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Summer whites
Archival Inkjet Print from 35mm film, 2024
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Last one
Archival Inkjet Print from 35mm film, 2024
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Woodshed
Archival Inkjet Print from 35mm film, 2023
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Joseph
Archival Inkjet Print from medium format film, 2024
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Peach season 2
Archival Inkjet Print from 35mm film, 2023
Sam's Town
A series of images made in and around Centerville, Utah, east of the Great Salt Lake, emphasizing the materials of a rugged, natural, and suburban western landscape.
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Mygatt-Baker-Sams Town-crop-1.jpg
Archival inkjet print from medium format film. 2024
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Feed Store
Archival inkjet print from medium format film. 2022
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Mygatt-Baker-Sams Town-crop-4.jpg
Archival inkjet print from medium format film. 2024
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Reservoir
Archival inkjet print from medium format film. 2022
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Mygatt-Baker-Sams Town-crop-1-2.jpg
Archival inkjet print from medium format film. 2024
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Mygatt-Baker-Sams Town-crop-6.jpg
Archival inkjet print from medium format film. 2024
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Jesus
Archival inkjet print from medium format film. 2022
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Mountain View Park
Archival inkjet print from medium format film. 2022
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Dressing Room
Archival inkjet print from medium format film. 2022
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Out back
Archival Inkjet Print from medium format film photograph
I only wish I could be around to plan my funeral with you
wild blue yonder
"The wild blue yonder came upon us like a drunken zoom lens thundering into focus. It seemed that God had made up His mind to change the background without telling anyone." -- Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A.
This selection is from a larger series of photographs inspired by Babitz. It was shot on a combination of 35mm and digital and has been collected and published in a zine by the same name.