Natalie Christensen, 2017
Featured In FLOWERGANGWe are surrounded by flowers
"We are surrounded by flowers" is a photograph that grew out of an ongoing body of work I started in 2017 to investigate aspects of the Southwest, titled The Deconstructed Self. When I started that work, I was especially interested in documenting the region’s non-historical, utilitarian architecture. Eventually organic forms began creeping in like phantoms, and were superimposed onto the built environment of manufactured structures. The framework of architecture and street elements persisted, coupled with a more elusive living element that began to emerge.
My initial decision to document plant forms may have been unconscious; hauntings from my internal world of dreams and untold stories. The organic presences gradually asserted themselves as markers surrounding a curb or a stairway to ascend. Other times the plant life hovered like delicate drawings etched by light. By allowing these whispers to come forth, their symbolic language is a reminder of the ways the past influences present life. Listening to their call - the echoes of our ancestors, our parental influences, our hidden dramas - and engagement with the mystery of these is key to becoming truer to who we are.
Santa Fe, New Mexico photographer Natalie Christensen’s focus is on banal peripheral settings. Influenced by 25 years as a psychotherapist, her photos favor psychological metaphors.
Christensen has exhibited in noted museums and galleries in the U.S. and internationally. A photobook, “007 – Natalie Christensen,” has recently been published by Setanta Books.
Christensen is the recipient of several prestigious photography awards, has work in permanent collections and publications featuring her work include The Guardian, The Observer, Creative Boom, The British Journal of Photography, and Aesthetica Magazine. Christensen is represented by Catherine et Andre Hug Galerie, Paris; Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe; Nordic Art Agency, Malmo; and Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach.
History
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