“Life is series of small moments” is an examination of intimacy, vulnerability and impermanence within the emotional landscape of domesticity. As a mother of two young girls I have become more acutely aware of the seemingly insignificant, the quiet, and the inconspicuous. This is partly because I am embroiled in the opposite; life with my children can be messy and noisy and I am constantly bumping up against chaos--as a result it can be all too easy to miss the world at large when tending to their needs. But within the
pandemonium there are moments of stillness--moments which I try to capture as a way of showing a sense of silence underneath the noise.

Every day I watch my daughters grow and change, so rapidly sometimes that I struggle with a recurrent sense of loss and a nostalgia for the recent past. My work has become a way of holding onto and paying homage to that painful impermanence, whether it be in an image of a spilled juice box stain drying on the couch or a scrape on my daughter's back which will all too soon heal and disappear. I find that in the small landscapes I observe I have discovered a new sense of wonder--but I have also found a keen ache, and it is this sad beauty that now runs throughout my life and my work, which to me have become inseparable.

Elizabeth Fleming (b. 1975, Philadelphia, PA) is an American artist whose primary photographic focus is on motherhood, memory, and how nostalgia informs perceptions of the world. She is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and the School of Visual Arts in New York City, earning both her BFA and MFA in photography. Her work has been shown internationally, including exhibitions at Hous Projects in Manhattan, Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, OR, The Photographic Resource Center in Boston and the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney. Awards include an Honorable Mention in Blurb’s Photography.Book.Now competition, an Artists’ ShowCase Award from The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO, and second place in Photo Center NW’s 15th annual juried show in Seattle. In 2009 she was one of 100 photographers invited to participate in CENTER’s Review Santa Fe and has been a Critical Mass finalist three years running. She lives with her husband and daughters Edie and June in Maplewood, NJ.



Blog: Tethered
Website: www.elizabethfleming.com