Bold As Love
Bold As Love

Endless Gone

Endless Gone began to take shape when Laura Jane was temporarily losing her vision in the year 2000. Embracing a blurred outlook, she discovered that when an image is stripped of detail, a powerful sensation takes hold, almost like a full-body memory. In the resulting photographs, mood and experience are open-ended and hold in them a sense of nostalgia.

Released in 2018, Endless Gone is an ongoing series of large scale, plexi-mounted photographs meant to explore memory and mood from a sensory perspective.

Limited Edition Plexi-Mounted Archival C-Prints are available in The Lyceum Gallery shop.

Laura Jane Petelko
Laura Jane Petelko

"In the water, I don’t feel the cold.

I often find myself called to an ocean or expansive lake. I wait for the right light, which typically arrives at dawn or dusk. The light that I find here is enveloping.

I come at this with a sense of nostalgia and, often, of longing. This part of me is wanting to connect to past moments and the people I shared them with. I think the work reflects that. There is something so vulnerable about this transitional light and the specific removal of the detail that would serve to document a moment that leaves this powerful temporal impression.

The aim is to create a mood and leave a sense of the space for the viewer to enter."

– Laura Jane Petelko

Breath From Another
Breath From Another

Inspired by the beauty and poetry we create when we evoke our past.

With details undefined and unassigned to time or place, what is left is the essence, the light, colour and feeling that we carry with us. Through this process, Laura Jane experiments with ambiguity to seek the point where a document is stripped of details that inform our rational mind in order to take us to a place where mood and feeling remain before we are lost to abstraction.

Dreaming This Life
Dreaming This Life

Endless Gone explores a painterly and abstracted approach to photography.

Laura Jane began an exploration in photography that was emotionally based and stripped down to the essentials of light, colour, and often movement, in order to provide the distance that memory itself can create, making room for the senses to play.

Gigantic
Gigantic

At a time when photography began its obsession with megapixels and resolution, Laura Jane was pulled in another direction. She’s in search of that sacred space where the viewer collaborates with the work to create a truly intimate interpretation.

I look for you
I look for you
Merge
Merge
Spirit How Long
Spirit How Long
Tezeta
Tezeta
Endless_Gone--Exhibition_Catalogue--Laura_Jane_Petelko--The_Lyceum_Gallery

Endless Gone Catalogue

Laura Jane’s exhibition catalogue is available in the gallery shop. Co-produced with The Lyceum Gallery, this lovely full colour book details the Endless Gone series, describes the story behind it and traces Laura Jane's genesis as a photographer. Endless Gone is her second show at The Lyceum Gallery.

Endless Gone began to take shape when Laura Jane was temporarily losing her sight.

“Embracing a blurred outlook, she discovered that when an image s stripped of detail, a powerful sensation takes hold, almost like a full-body memory, In the resulting photographs, mood and experience are open-ended and hold in them a sense of nostalgia.” – Katrina Onstad

The Days Fell on their Knees
The Days Fell on their Knees

“The Days Fell on Their Knees” Silk Scarf

Named after a beautiful lyric from the song Stay by David Bowie, this piece speaks to the nature of our days being stripped of their usual features and justifications. We find ourselves connected through feeling and nostalgia and the love and the longing for one another.

The Days Fell on their Knees Silk Scarf
The Days Fell on their Knees Silk Scarf
When I think of Love
When I think of Love

More from Laura Jane Petelko:

Bold As Love
Bold As Love

Endless Gone

Endless Gone began to take shape when Laura Jane was temporarily losing her vision in the year 2000. Embracing a blurred outlook, she discovered that when an image is stripped of detail, a powerful sensation takes hold, almost like a full-body memory. In the resulting photographs, mood and experience are open-ended and hold in them a sense of nostalgia.

Released in 2018, Endless Gone is an ongoing series of large scale, plexi-mounted photographs meant to explore memory and mood from a sensory perspective.

Limited Edition Plexi-Mounted Archival C-Prints are available in The Lyceum Gallery shop.

Laura Jane Petelko
Laura Jane Petelko

"In the water, I don’t feel the cold.

I often find myself called to an ocean or expansive lake. I wait for the right light, which typically arrives at dawn or dusk. The light that I find here is enveloping.

I come at this with a sense of nostalgia and, often, of longing. This part of me is wanting to connect to past moments and the people I shared them with. I think the work reflects that. There is something so vulnerable about this transitional light and the specific removal of the detail that would serve to document a moment that leaves this powerful temporal impression.

The aim is to create a mood and leave a sense of the space for the viewer to enter."

– Laura Jane Petelko

Breath From Another
Breath From Another

Inspired by the beauty and poetry we create when we evoke our past.

With details undefined and unassigned to time or place, what is left is the essence, the light, colour and feeling that we carry with us. Through this process, Laura Jane experiments with ambiguity to seek the point where a document is stripped of details that inform our rational mind in order to take us to a place where mood and feeling remain before we are lost to abstraction.

Dreaming This Life
Dreaming This Life

Endless Gone explores a painterly and abstracted approach to photography.

Laura Jane began an exploration in photography that was emotionally based and stripped down to the essentials of light, colour, and often movement, in order to provide the distance that memory itself can create, making room for the senses to play.

Gigantic
Gigantic

At a time when photography began its obsession with megapixels and resolution, Laura Jane was pulled in another direction. She’s in search of that sacred space where the viewer collaborates with the work to create a truly intimate interpretation.

I look for you
I look for you
Merge
Merge
Spirit How Long
Spirit How Long
Tezeta
Tezeta
Endless_Gone--Exhibition_Catalogue--Laura_Jane_Petelko--The_Lyceum_Gallery

Endless Gone Catalogue

Laura Jane’s exhibition catalogue is available in the gallery shop. Co-produced with The Lyceum Gallery, this lovely full colour book details the Endless Gone series, describes the story behind it and traces Laura Jane's genesis as a photographer. Endless Gone is her second show at The Lyceum Gallery.

Endless Gone began to take shape when Laura Jane was temporarily losing her sight.

“Embracing a blurred outlook, she discovered that when an image s stripped of detail, a powerful sensation takes hold, almost like a full-body memory, In the resulting photographs, mood and experience are open-ended and hold in them a sense of nostalgia.” – Katrina Onstad

The Days Fell on their Knees
The Days Fell on their Knees

“The Days Fell on Their Knees” Silk Scarf

Named after a beautiful lyric from the song Stay by David Bowie, this piece speaks to the nature of our days being stripped of their usual features and justifications. We find ourselves connected through feeling and nostalgia and the love and the longing for one another.

The Days Fell on their Knees Silk Scarf
The Days Fell on their Knees Silk Scarf
When I think of Love
When I think of Love

More from Laura Jane Petelko:

Bold As Love
Bold As Love

Endless Gone

Endless Gone began to take shape when Laura Jane was temporarily losing her vision in the year 2000. Embracing a blurred outlook, she discovered that when an image is stripped of detail, a powerful sensation takes hold, almost like a full-body memory. In the resulting photographs, mood and experience are open-ended and hold in them a sense of nostalgia.

Released in 2018, Endless Gone is an ongoing series of large scale, plexi-mounted photographs meant to explore memory and mood from a sensory perspective.

Limited Edition Plexi-Mounted Archival C-Prints are available in The Lyceum Gallery shop.

Laura Jane Petelko
Laura Jane Petelko

"In the water, I don’t feel the cold.

I often find myself called to an ocean or expansive lake. I wait for the right light, which typically arrives at dawn or dusk. The light that I find here is enveloping.

I come at this with a sense of nostalgia and, often, of longing. This part of me is wanting to connect to past moments and the people I shared them with. I think the work reflects that. There is something so vulnerable about this transitional light and the specific removal of the detail that would serve to document a moment that leaves this powerful temporal impression.

The aim is to create a mood and leave a sense of the space for the viewer to enter."

– Laura Jane Petelko

Breath From Another
Breath From Another

Inspired by the beauty and poetry we create when we evoke our past.

With details undefined and unassigned to time or place, what is left is the essence, the light, colour and feeling that we carry with us. Through this process, Laura Jane experiments with ambiguity to seek the point where a document is stripped of details that inform our rational mind in order to take us to a place where mood and feeling remain before we are lost to abstraction.

Dreaming This Life
Dreaming This Life

Endless Gone explores a painterly and abstracted approach to photography.

Laura Jane began an exploration in photography that was emotionally based and stripped down to the essentials of light, colour, and often movement, in order to provide the distance that memory itself can create, making room for the senses to play.

Gigantic
Gigantic
I look for you
I look for you

At a time when photography began its obsession with megapixels and resolution, Laura Jane was pulled in another direction. She’s in search of that sacred space where the viewer collaborates with the work to create a truly intimate interpretation.

Merge
Merge
Spirit How Long
Spirit How Long
Tezeta
Tezeta

Endless Gone Catalogue

Endless_Gone--Exhibition_Catalogue--Laura_Jane_Petelko--The_Lyceum_Gallery

Laura Jane’s exhibition catalogue is available in the gallery shop. Co-produced with The Lyceum Gallery, this lovely full colour book details the Endless Gone series, describes the story behind it and traces Laura Jane's genesis as a photographer. Endless Gone is her second show at The Lyceum Gallery.

Endless Gone began to take shape when Laura Jane was temporarily losing her sight.

“Embracing a blurred outlook, she discovered that when an image s stripped of detail, a powerful sensation takes hold, almost like a full-body memory, In the resulting photographs, mood and experience are open-ended and hold in them a sense of nostalgia.” – Katrina Onstad

The Days Fell on their Knees
The Days Fell on their Knees

"The Days Fell on their Knees" Silk Scarf

The Days Fell on their Knees Silk Scarf

Named after a beautiful lyric from the song Stay by David Bowie, this piece speaks to the nature of our days being stripped of their usual features and justifications. We find ourselves connected through feeling and nostalgia and the love and the longing for one another.

When I think of Love
When I think of Love

More from Laura Jane Petelko:

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