Joan Fitzsimmons, #154, From the series, Small & Large Thoughts, 2015, Inkjet and silver prints, 16 x 20 inches

Joan Fitzsimmons is an artist/educator whose practice spans more than 40 years. Working with incidental observations and materials of daily life, she constructs imagery for the camera and photograms. The scale varies from small, intimate inkjet prints to large-scale gelatin silver collages.

“Small & Large Thoughts is a photographic series that began when I noticed that my emptied bowl of yogurt resembled the remnants of a painter’s palette. It began as a  reflection on that artform’s centuries of practice. Later I noticed my spoons, evidencing decay, the inevitable entropy of life. Re-examining heirlooms of home is a process of reclamation; recycling objects and collecting memories, claiming their very simplicity as material for art-making.” - Joan Fitzsimmons