Marguerite de Messières is a Maryland-based multimedia artist working across painting, portraiture, sculpture, installation, and time-based media. Her work explores landscape, memory, and the relationship between individual and collective experience. She frequently creates community-responsive public art in collaboration with sculptor Tsvetomir Naydenov, combining painting, metalwork, and kinetic elements.
Cadence (Wildfire Suns)
I made this work in response the Canadian wildfires of summer 2023, when smoke turned our skies hazy red for weeks. I washed soot out of my air filters, froze the dirty water into discs of ice, and filmed them melting on the floor of my studio. I paired this with footage of a cornfield near my home that is now being developed. I have passed it since childhood. The work holds what felt familiar and fragile at the same time, touched gently by cataclysms far away.
The video is projected onto the paper relics of the process of melting the ice discs, with the watermarks and soot circles on them.
The video is projected onto the paper relics of the process of melting the ice discs, with the watermarks and soot circles on them.
Medium: video, paper, soot
Year: 2024
Details: dimensions variable, 36 seconds
Headshot, Portrait, and Travel Photographer
Ive involved myself with music, especially a musicians art. so I took it upon myself to take the role displaying what music looks and feels like to me, my life is in detail within my music but tend to lean towards the pain and heart ache vibe while also telling a short story. Overall, Its Time!
Sarah Daniels is a Baltimore-based photographer and writer. Sarah is an adjunct professor for the University of Baltimore, where she teaches writing to incarcerated students, and a gallery attendant at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Sarah holds an MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore, where she concentrated in fiction. Her fiction has been published under her pseudonym, Persephone King.
You can learn more about Sarah’s photography at dichotphoto.com and her written work at persephoneking.com. She can be found on Instagram at @daniels.sarah.
DeAnna is a published poet and artist whose work is characterized by its sincere exploration of nature, nostalgic undertones, and thought-provoking themes. Her poetry has been described as ground-breaking and refreshing, earning her high praises in the literary community.