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Slavick says that the images at right — Woman on a Train Leaving Hong Kong for Mainland China and Hotel Sheets to be Spread out to Dry by Chambermaids, Baoshan, China — represent her journey from Hong Kong to mainland China. She talks about the meaning of labor and the "formal, poetic" beauty of the sheets, and she speaks of the woman on the train as "every observer." But, she says, "I want people to make up their own narratives."
This set of images — Girl Skipping around the Toy Boat Pond, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, France, and Girl Hiding during a Game of Tag, Jardin des Chartreux, Lyon, France — shows contrasting emotions. Slavick calls the top image "this wonderful moment of joy and play that I just happened to get." The other "seems like a private, secret garden." These images appeared in the Biennial Studio Art Faculty Exhibition at the Ackland Art Museum in early 2003.
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o elin o'Hara slavick, a photo is never absolute. "I
don't think that a photograph by itself, without any sort
of context or information, provides any truth with a capital T," says
slavick, associate professor of art. One way she provides context
for photos is by juxtaposing them, as she does in these selections
from her Travel Posters 2001 series.
Angela Spivey is the associate editor of Endeavors magazine.
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