Photographs are acts of repetition and recollection—attempts to hold what is already passing. This exhibition brings together two artistic approaches shaped by return: to places, to images, and to fleeting moments that resist being fully contained.

Archival photographs taken by anonymous individuals a century ago quietly assert presence—I was here, this is what I saw. From these images, an artist draws the overlooked plants lingering at the margins, translating their shadows, growth, and eventual disappearance into intimate new forms. What was absent becomes present again through careful attention.

At the same time, a contemporary photographer repeatedly walks his neighborhood, returning to the same subjects as light shifts and seasons change. These images are not about capture, but about perception—about how meaning emerges through repetition. Between memory and return, the works in this exhibition explore how looking again allows understanding to deepen, and how time transforms seeing into something poetic.

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Maddison Colvin is an interdisciplinary visual artist residing in Orem, UT, USA. She received a BA from Whitworth University in 2008 and an MFA from Brigham Young University in 2013. Between 2017-2020 she co-directed the artist-run space Tropical Contemporary in Eugene, Oregon, where she helped to produce nearly fifty exhibitions and public art events. In 2020, she was the recipient of Oak Spring Garden Foundation's Eliza Moore Fellowship, and was the 2024 Alan Jutzi Fellow at The Huntington Library and Garden in Pasadena, CA. Through the mediums of painting, drawing, photography, and writing, she interprets both gardens and archives as sites of control, conflict, desire, failure, and accumulated history.

James Talbot (b.1996) i s an artist living and working in Utah. His work deals with themes o f place, memory, and objecthood. Since graduating with a BFA in Studio Art from Brigham Young University in 2019, he has self-published two photo books, co-founded an independent publishing imprint of art and photography publications, and exhibited in group shows in venues spanning from New York City to Rome, Italy. Talbot's work is a lens-based exercise in the preservation of formative moments associated with specific sites, both individually and culturally.

Usually searching for innocuous and discrete subject matter, Talbot works with photography, video, and textual elements to mythologize places of personal and communal significance; with a focus on small visual details of colors, shadows, and other motifs, he hopes to capture a more intimate, numinous spirit that contributes to a collective memory o f those places.