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Twigonometry Triptych, Rain

2003
21st century
42 1/4 in. x 38 1/4 in. (107.32 cm x 97.16 cm)

Meg Ojala, American, b. 1953

Object Type: Photographs

Creation Place: North America, United States

Medium and Support: Archival inkjet print on paper

Credit Line: Carleton College Art Collection

Accession Number: 2005.027.03

"It was my challenge to evoke the experience of Twigonometry’s constantly transforming, fleeting presence. I am intrigued by the beauty of the line and the infinite number of intriguing shapes and spaces created by overlapping forms."

Meg Ojala, photographer and professor of art at St. Olaf College, studied Patrick Dougherty’s Twigonometry intensely over an entire year. Using both digital and medium format cameras, she shot the tangled twigs and nest-like enclosures repeatedly. Twigonometry Triptych celebrates the sculpture through the seasons. The central image, in color, reveals the rich hues and complex interlaced shapes of Twigonometry basking in sunlight. Snow, to the left, highlights the dynamic directional movements orchestrated by the artist with sticks wrapped across the surface of the work. And Rain evokes the subtle, slightly blurry beauty of a landscape sheathed in moisture.

Meg Ojala, a Minnesota native, has taught photography at St. Olaf College for the past 20 years. She earned a B.A. from the University of Minnesota and an M.F.A from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The recipient of the 2005 McKnight Foundation Photography Fellowship, which she also enjoyed in 1987 and 1999, Ojala has also been awarded a Minnesota Arts Board grant. The artist has recently focused her creative efforts close to home, observing and photographing a small island on the Cannon River near her studio in Dundas, Minnesota.

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21st Century, American*, Contemporary*, inkjet printing*, inkjet prints*, paper (fiber product)*, photographic paper*, photographs*

21st Century
American - Refers to the context of or associated specifically with the modern political entity of the United States of America.
Contemporary - Refers to painting, sculpture, graphic arts, and architecture dating from the recent past and present. It differs from modern art in that the term 'contemporary art' does not carry the implication of a non-traditional style, but instead refers only to the time period in which the work was created. 'Modern' and 'contemporary' are inherently fluid terms. The term 'contemporary' is sometimes more narrowly used to refer to art from ca. 1960 or 1970 up to the present.
inkjet printing - Nonimpact computer-controlled printing in which tiny droplets of ink are projected from nozzles onto paper.
inkjet prints - Prints made from inkjet printers, which use a non-impact computer-controlled printing process, in which tiny droplets of ink are projected from nozzles onto paper.
paper (fiber product) - Refers generally to all types of matted or felted sheets or webs of fiber formed and dried on a fine screen from a pulpy water suspension. The fibers may be animal, such as hair, silk or wool, or mineral, such as asbestos, or synthetic. However most paper is made from cellulosic plant fiber, such as from wood pulp, grass, cotton, linen, and straw.
photographic paper - Paper used for making photographic prints that consists of a base material with a white or near-white surface that is coated with one or more emulsion layers. It is typically a high grade of paper traditionally made from 100% cotton or linen rags, because lignin and other residues in other paper would react with the photosensitive salts and destroy the image. Photographic paper is strong, uniform, and dimensionally stable when wet and dry. For increased wet-strength, the papers are sized with animal glue, starch, stearic acid, or synthetic resins, such as melamine (used since 1948). One or more fillers, such as barium sulfate, titanium dioxide, clay, starch, or polyacrylamide, are also added for opacity, color, and strength. The papers were calendered to produce a smooth, nonporous surface. Since the late 1960s, most color photographic papers have been made from cellulose fibers coated on both sides with polyethylene.
photographs - Refers to still images produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), generally by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, paper, glass, or metal. It does not include reproductive prints of documents and technical drawings, for which descriptors found under "" are more appropriate. Photographs may be positive or negative, opaque or transparent.

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