"What's Our Frame of Reference? Portraits from the North End of Middletown, U.S.A" by Buster Nelson

September 3rd-September 30th

ARTISTS’ RECEPTION:  Sunday, Sept. 9,  4-6 pm   Free  Meet the students involved! Hear their own words and catch a glimpse into their world!

We believe we are all connected to the North End of Middletown in some way.  To deepen the creative connections, communication channels, and trust within our community we use portrait photography.  Creating a true, collaborative process is the challenge.  We use a picture frame both to question and to highlight aspects of how we may be seen and how we see ourselves.  What is in the frame of reference? – Buster Nelson, Photographer

The words included with the images are from the artists, both youthful and mature, that have created the portraits.  The quotes are not attributed to any one person in order to invite the viewer to make his or her own connections between the words and the images.  Who spoke which words?  How much truth can we draw from a single statement or image?  How much can we know from Ali’s words quoted above?  In asking these questions and in listening to the answers, one might begin by considering, “What’s in a frame of reference?”