Curatorial Overview

"Robin Dintiman’s photograph Ghost Tree documents a transformation in progress: a private performance which the artist draped a felled oak tree in spectral cloth and surrounded it with various reclaimed materials which conjure the shape of absent architectures. At the same time, the image’s ambiguity renders it open to interpretations - spine or ribcage, an asymptote trailing out of frame."

"Dintiman’s artistic process is a form of self-preservation, of catharsis and as a self-therapeutic act. Artistic expression is her way of processing and coping with personal loss, grief, and traumatic psychological events. She embodies the cycle of life by using organic material and objects she finds in nature –innovative, improvisational and arrhythmic."

“Robin Dintiman’s work possesses a deep connection to nature. Whether she is working directly with objects found in nature or taking nature as her subject, she strives to capture the intimate quality of natural settings, suffused in personal memory with the memory in art, a universal story is told."

”Robin Dintiman’s work evokes a dance between life, death and resilience. Her ghostly, translucent images of gnarly coastal trees, printed with photogravure techniques on diaphanous silk, speak of survival in the face of suffering. The gritty misshapen Earth Birth spheres carry the unvarnished truth of physical decay, stark reminders of transient nature of all things."

“What’s the relationship between freedom and decision? You think you are free. You start in the studio or you start outside with your camera. But you’re not really free, because you are You….always."