Skillfully Curled Photography

Photos by Patsy Rahn

Join us for the Skillfully Curled Photography Exhibit

Magic in the Mundane

Photographs by Patsy Rahn

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Patsy Rahn is a poet who takes photographs. 

People often ask me to tell them about my past so I will include a simple summary here. After moving in 1966 to Toronto Canada to attend the National Ballet School, I dropped out of high school when I was 17 years old. At 18, I joined a theatre company and for the next 18 years I worked in theatre, television and film in Toronto, New York and Los Angeles. I retired from acting and worked for a few years organizing conferences, and as an assistant for the artist Sam Francis. I then went back to school in my 40s and earned a BA in political science from UCLA, and went on in my 50s to earn a Masters degree in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Indiana University. I then worked over a decade at the IU Eskenazi Museum of Art from which I earned my final retirement. 

I write both prose and poetry, give public readings, and publish in various journals and anthologies. In 2018, I published a collection of poetry titled The Grainy Wet Soul.  Photography entered my life many years ago when a friend gave me a Pentax camera and several lenses back in the 1960s. 

For many of my photographs, light on a subject is what attracts me. I often like to capture the play of light and dark. I’m interested in the micro as well as the macro and I love the exploration of the abstract in the natural world. I seem drawn to capturing the magic in the ordinary. My goal is to capture the mystery of the moment as it appears to me in that instant. 

In the Galleries SKY, NATURE, OTHER, the image you see is the image I saw through my lens.  In the SPX Gallery, photos of everyday objects have been manipulated to create a new image, an alchemical journey. 

 It is my pleasure to offer these images for others to enjoy. If you are interested, please visit my poetry website here.

With best wishes,  

Patsy Rahn  

p.s.  The name Skillfully Curled Photography
 comes from a poem by  e.e. cummings.  
I’ve included the poem below.