(Aline Mare) Diaton

Unique photo-based process on archival silver paper with paint36 x 24 inches Aline Mare began her career in Lower Manhattan, with a background in theater and experimental film. She completed undergraduate work at SUNY Buffalo and an MFA from SFAI. She continues to experiment, exploring metaphors of nature and its transformative relationship to the human psyche and the state of our planet. alinemare.com, @alinelillie I have been repeatedly drawn to encounters with Joshua trees during extended trips to the Mojave. In this suite of images, I have immersed myself in those landscapes, open to the pull of objects and narratives embedded in the nakedness of the desert floor, and to powerful poignant artifacts offered by the Joshua tree itself. Using a process of scanning, shooting, layering and painting, I gather and transform bits of plants, fossils and desert detritus into a kind of psychic snapshot. The eroded objects become talismans; charged artifacts of past habitations bleached and fra