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Photographer Heather Stearns is passionately inspired by nature and seeks opportunity to showcase its essential role in her compositions. For Heather, nature creates its own art, whether it be a blossoming flower or paint blistering and chipping off the side of an old New England barn. This artist takes what already exists and thoughtfully photographs portions of the whole to put forth her detailed glimpses.
Heather intelligently finds innate interest no matter the subject and enjoys bringing that point of interest forward in her work.
With older structures, she brings that which some might view as unsighltly, or in fact barely noticed at all, to life in a new light. For example, with old barns, she takes her camera's eye in closer to illuminate rustic, naturally weather-worn features while executing keen measures of composition and color. She finds striking beauty in the many colored wood grains of barn board that have seen and responded to the New England environment. She makes sense of wandering vines as they climb along barn walls and anything else along their determined paths. She offers fresh focused vision, yet a comfortable sense of the history of these structures, as with a worn barn door handle that one just knows has been opened for years at each new dawn.
Her innovative work beautifully emulates her vision of taking something aged or commonly familiar and making it new again, offering the viewer another angle or focused chance to see and/or reflect on elements of relevancy and compositional beauty amongst features where nature and in some instances time, has made presence known.
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