Suzanne Rose: Moments of Being. Zolla/Lieberman Gallery. Chicago

This series examines beauty in life through a soft lens of memory. Found in everyday moments, these images contemplate underlying themes of love, longing, grief, and the desire to be truly seen.

In response to having to let go of a beloved home with, as they say, well laid plans, I turned to Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, One Art, to navigate this loss and realign where a woman’s value truthfully resides.

This series examines beauty discovered in everyday moments under the roof of a place I called home for almost three decades – a place that I loved as much as it’s occupants.

What has become apparent – especially when it comes to one’s own perception of beauty, is that a woman’s worth never truly is housed in her exterior but, as time tells, her beauty is the sum of all her interior wealth.

As the poem reads, “the art of losing isn’t hard to master,” – my youth along with the brick, the mortar, is gone. But it is the memory of moments that I hold fast – the moments of being – where the true heart of the home is housed, where genuine beauty rightly resides and when all added up, to no surprise, is evidence of a life well lived.

– Suzanne Rose, 2022

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Chicago, IL 60654

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Esta serie examina la belleza de la vida a través de la suave lente de la memoria. Encontradas en momentos cotidianos, estas imágenes contemplan temas subyacentes como el amor, la añoranza, el dolor y el deseo de ser visto de verdad.

En respuesta a tener que dejar ir un hogar amado con, como se dice, planes bien trazados, recurrí al poema de Elizabeth Bishop, One Art, para navegar por esta pérdida y realinear donde reside verdaderamente el valor de una mujer.
Esta serie examina la belleza descubierta en los momentos cotidianos bajo el techo de un lugar que llamé hogar durante casi tres décadas, un lugar que amé tanto como a sus ocupantes.

Lo que se ha hecho evidente -especialmente cuando se trata de la propia percepción de la belleza- es que el valor de una mujer nunca se aloja verdaderamente en su exterior, sino que, como dice el tiempo, su belleza es la suma de toda su riqueza interior.

Como dice el poema, “el arte de perder no es difícil de dominar”, mi juventud junto con el ladrillo, la argamasa, se ha ido. Pero es el recuerdo de los momentos lo que conservo -los momentos de ser- donde se aloja el verdadero corazón del hogar, donde reside la auténtica belleza y cuando todo se suma, para no sorprender, es la prueba de una vida bien vivida.

– Suzanne Rose, 2022

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