Sally Mann, interview NPR and how some art leaves bread-crumb trails back to the journey of our ancestors
Sometimes I write things on my blog that are sort-of messages posted to the future for my daughters to find, as a breadcrumb trail back to any lingering questions they may have about their mother. Certainly, not all my blog posts are meant to be digital "messages in a bottle," but some are. A few are. It's just that in real life, if you stand too close to someone for too long, you can't see them as clearly. Distance, time, and the addition of other voices, do help. So, while they may have figured it out from my bookshelf already, there are two artists on the planet I feel speak in an emotional shorthand my heart can relate to the quickest: They are Sally Mann and Ellen Gilchrist. Sally Mann is a visual artist, and American photographer. Some describe her as an American (Southern) photographer. She's best known for her large black-and-white photographs—at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death. MORE ON SAL