Portal: Reflections— immersed, yet carefully arranged. A place within a place.

2022
Megan Suttles
Inkjet photographs and Video (47 sec.)

Portal is a series of photographs that came after spending two-and-a-half years in the city during the pandemic. A longing for something else. While staying inspired by each of the resident artists—thinking about collaboration, our conversations, the new smells in the forest, sunspots beaming through the trees, daily walks to the swimming hole and staring into its entrancing reflection and trying to physically fit into a new place very unlike my home, I began to imagine how to place myself in this new setting. A portal, yet in place within its own surroundings. I literally embraced the earth, and I became a part of another reflection within the land for short moments, still bounded and never completely silenced.

Alex captured these moments and documented them through the camera.