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.
"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
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.
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.
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.
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” 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.
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.
"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
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.
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.
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.
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” 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.
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.
"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
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.
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.
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.
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" 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.