A Distance Nearer Home
the photography of melanie parent
July 12 - august 11, 2018
coolspace @ artspace
Photographer Melanie Parent is searching for home. Not the home she lives in now, but the home of her memories. She is looking for what is lost.
In her search she brings us, the viewer, along for the ride. It is a journey into dreams, time and lonely roads. It’s a series of moments that the speed of life can make us miss, but that is what Parent makes us see.
STATEMENT FROM THE ARTIST
The photography is helping me to grab onto what I can of these places, to hang onto something.
ARTIST BIO
Melanie Parent was afraid to step out of her front door, afraid to see what lay beyond her driveway, what was happening down her road. She struggled with fear and anxiety and barely left her house for several years. Her husband gave her a camera, and with it came the course to use her Art to reframe the world of her Northwest Louisiana home in a way that she hopes will help others see this part of the world differently - warmer and more honestly.
