About Dottie
Much has gone missing in our pandemic years. People and our way of life top the list of the missing. But, with the world in slow motion, we have had much time to become cognizant of the many facets of our world that are disappearing. It is alarming to watch people, animals, birds, habitats, civility and political systems disappear.
My photographic work over the last couple of years depicts disappearance. Each series undergoes a transition from the detailed and distinct to an… more
Habitat 1
Habitat destruction caused by deforestation, pollution, and agricultural development is happening at an alarming rate to our natural landscapes. It brings wildlife closer to human populations, endangering both animals and people. The destruction of habitat has probably caused our global pandemic.
My Habitat 1 series presents photographs of habitats being encroached upon and finally swallowed up by man-made structures. In the first image, the habitat is the main subject of the photograph and is detailed and distinct. The series ends, though, with a wall closing off a landscape... a landscape that is barely visible and disappearing.
The photographs of each project presented on the Baker site are meant to be seen as a series. At first, images are focused and distinct, but as the series progresses, successive images become more and more abstract and less photographic. It is hard to make out their detail. Finally, in the last photograph of each series, reality has all but disappeared.
My photographic style lends itself well to the formation of these series. I have developed my own techniques for capturing reflections and representing transparency. My camera movement technique causes subject matter to become transparent and detail to disappear. These techniques have allowed me to create images with subjects that appear to disappear.
To facilitate the importance of sequence in these series, I have included, as the last artwork of each project, a slide show video of all images in the series. This video provides a sense of progression that enables viewers to more fully understand the serial nature of these projects.
All photographs are 20” x 30” pigment ink prints.
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Wall Within Rock30" x 20" Pigment Ink Photographic Print / A fortress photographed from the base of one of the San Francisco hills. The natural world is taking back the man-made structures.
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Shared Space20" x 30" Pigment Ink Photographic Print / Reflection of trees on window glass meld with a rural animal enclosure in this photograph. The trees in the landscape recede and disappear behind the enclosure.
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Hidden Truth20" x 30" Pigment Ink Photographic Print / A reflection of the sheen of sunlight on a wet walkway melds with and obscures one of my favorite riparian environments. You can see the actual walkway at the bottom of the photograph. The river environment disappears into the walkway reflection.
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Outside In30" x 20" Pigment Ink Photographic Print / The radiance of sunlight on the netting of an avian environment produces bokeh, out of focus shapes when photographed at the widest camera aperture. The triangular focal point of the photograph was created by the light and shade in the enclosure. With the lack of focus and bokeh texture, the details of the habitat disappear.
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Shared and Drawn Habitat20" x 30" Pigment Ink Photographic Print / This low-light indoor zoo enclosure enhanced with artwork and living plants, is an interesting juxtaposition of the man-made and the natural. In this instance, the man-made artwork is representational of the natural world and the living plants exist in a man-made structure. The lack of camera focus on the plants, makes them appear to vanish.
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Sky Intrusion30" x 20" Pigment Ink Photographic Print / My camera movement at time of capture softened and obscured this hot, dusty hiking trail. The whole landscape races off the frame to oblivion.
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Almost Absent20" x 30" Pigment Ink Photographic Print / Camera movement and window reflection create the perception of disappearance in this photograph of green space in a city park. It looks like a door is being closed on the environment. The green space is disappearing.
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The Year of Disappear - Habitat 1 Video Slideshow
Movement-Soft
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Flaxen Flare
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DCampbell-Bundling Current.jpgImpressions of irrigated blossoms in San Diego 24” x 36” Pigment Ink Photographic Print
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Fragments and DivisionsImpression of gharial and environment 24” x 36” Pigment Ink Photographic Print
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Greenhouse Gesture
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Washed Sky SquareThis 20" x 20" photograph is printed with pigment ink on satin photographic paper.
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DCampbell-Treasure-2.jpgImpression of moving basket 24” x 36” Pigment Ink Photographic Print
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DCampbell-Warming Shadows-2.jpgImpression of garden sunlight 24” x 36” Pigment Ink Photographic Print
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DCampbell-Streaming-2.jpgImpressions of fish in flowing waters 24” x 36” Pigment Ink Photographic Print
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DCampbell-Streak-2.jpgAqueous impression 24” x 36” Pigment Ink Photographic Print
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DCampbell-Plumes-2_.jpgImpression of flames and feathers 24” x 36” Pigment Ink Photographic Print
Movement-Greyed
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6-Stanzas-DCampbell.jpgImpressions of musical forms / 24” x 36” Pigment Ink Photographic Print
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Disc
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Puzzled
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10-Waters Below-DCampbell.jpgMoving water and camera creating impressions of fountain and stream / 24” x 36” Pigment Ink Photographic Print
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11-Glass on Glass-DCampbell.jpgCamera-movement enlivened highlights on glass surfaces / 24” x 36” Pigment Ink Photographic Print
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12-Sun on Strands-DCampbell.jpgCamera movement assisting the wind through winter trees / 24” x 36” Pigment Ink Photographic Print
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Native Histories
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Inscriptions
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15-Cultural Artifact-DCampbell.jpgRough surfaces and design enlivened by sunlight and camera movement / 24” x 36” Pigment Ink Photographic Print
Movement-Geons
Geons are used to anchor the movement in this portfolio of photographs. The geons are embellished and softened by my moving camera capture. The context of these photographs is not clear and the photographic detail is blurred, but the geons allow the viewer a safe platform, an organizing structure, from which they can investigate the abstraction of the images.
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1-A Slow Burn-DCampbell.jpgSpinning Earth...getting hotter / 24” x 36” Pigment Ink Photographic Print
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2-Circlet-DCampbell.jpgLooking through textured hardness / 24” x 36” Pigment Ink Photographic Print
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3-Artistic Coffins-DCampbell.jpgAn awareness of closure / 24” x 36” Pigment Ink Photographic Print
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4-Entering Through-DCampbell.jpgLeaving the sky and moving through irregular corridors / 24” x 36” Pigment Ink Photographic Print
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5-Grooved Garage-DCampbell.jpgMy movement design on the garage / 24” x 36” Pigment Ink Photographic Print
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6-Record-DCampbell.jpgMovement impression of toroid graphic / 24” x 36” Pigment Ink Photographic Print
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Spikes OnImpressions of reflection on base of industrial metal. Image from the Movement-Geons portfolio / 24” x 36” Pigment Ink Photographic Print
Thespian Landscapes
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Diaphanous SectionsThis 20” x 30” photograph is printed with pigment ink on photographic rag paper.
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Transmuted GladeThis 36" x 24" photograph is printed with pigment ink on satin photographic paper.
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Nocturnal GerminationThis 20” x 30” photograph is printed with pigment ink on photographic rag paper.
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Budding EscarpmentThis 20” x 30” photograph is printed with pigment ink on photographic rag paper.
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Circumscribed UndergrowthThis 24” x 20” photograph is printed with pigment ink on satin photographic paper.
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Windswept LightThis 36" x 24" photograph is printed with pigment ink on satin photographic paper.
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Ancient LairThis 30” x 20” photograph is printed with pigment ink on photographic rag paper.
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Unstable AtmosphereThis 36" x 24" photograph is printed with pigment ink on satin photographic paper.
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Sky IntrusionThis 36" x 24" photograph is printed with pigment ink on satin photographic paper.
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Filtered DaylightThis 24" x 36" photograph is printed with pigment ink on satin photographic paper.