Lynne Scott Constantine, 2020
image transfer on aluminum panels, mounted on stained and burned raw canvas, 18″ x 14″

I think of the eight images that are part of these two works—beach, bridge, dunes, maritime forest, ghost forest, lichen, sea rise map and an open hand—as the collective unconscious of the Outer Banks, a repository of storylines waiting for us to fill them in with experience. They embody both the fault lines along which perils lie, and the through line of human good will, persistence and ingenuity that offers hope and a way out of peril. The process I used to make these images—transferring digital photographs to aluminum—allowed them to take on the misty and mysterious feeling of objects in dreams, at once present and ephemeral.