Free to the public. People are welcome to bring their lunch.
Standing Still in a Constant State of Departure
Landry Major and Cash Kasper
In her lunchtime talk, Landry Major will discuss the photographic series made in harmony with her son, Cash.
On Christmas Day of 2023 her beloved son died.
This collaboration came out of the need to honor their relationship. To show how, even after he left the physical world, they are still connected. The series title is from a line Cash wrote in a notebook Landry found after his passing. She believes it was his feeling of always being on the verge of leaving this life but standing still staying for her.
These images are double and triple exposures comprised of collodion wet plate, Polachrome slide film, Polaroids, gold and silver leaf on vellum and film images. Landry and Cash’s images blended into a vision of the new place he inhabits.
Love that defies space and time. Hands that reach out to find each other between realms. Traveling beyond intense grief into understanding that they are still together.
Landry Major is a photographic artist who splits her time between Los Angeles, California and Portland, Oregon. Landry has won honors from Photolucida’s Critical Mass, the Julia Margaret Cameron Award, and Lurzer’s Archive. Her work has been seen in The New York Times, Time Magazine, AAP Magazine, Black and White Magazine (UK), Analog Forever Magazine, and the Western Art Collector Magazine. Landry’s work has been exhibited at the Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA; Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA; A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX; SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC; and PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
The Lunchtime Talk series is a presentation of the Portland Art Museum’s
Photography Council.