mother•land
Some of the most iconic natural lands in the United States are seen with a fresh perspective in a new exhibit at Heartland Community College.
Heartland’s Joe McCauley Gallery presents mother•land, large scale photographs by Monica Estabrook, running March 30 through June 11, 2020.
Estabrook describes her color prints in mother•land as anti-sublime landscapes. Photographed while on family camping trips with “the kids in tow, time constrained by the needs of others”, she frames “brief, disrupted encounters with the landscape.”
Featuring the Grand Canyon, Death Valley Basin, Petrified Forest, Sequoia National Forest, Big Sur, and other popular, scenic locations, Estabrook’s photographs are purposely opposite of sublime landscape conventions. She conveys a place and moment to express “that feeling of squeezing in suppressed passions that end up being overpowered by the necessity to rear children and provide for the family.”
To read more, please read the gallery information document.
Walk through Video
Journey through mother•land: a large-scale nature photography exhibit by Monica Estabrook, an Illinois artist, high school art teacher, and mother.
Panorama
A panoramic view of the mother•land exhibit – a large-scale nature photography collection by Monica Estabrook: an Illinois artist, high school art teacher, and mother.
Sequoia National Forest
Experience a close-up shot of Sequoia National Forest, a digital print from mother•land – a large-scale nature photography exhibition by Monica Estabrook: an Illinois artist, high school art teacher, and mother.
Death Valley Dunes
View a close-up of the digital print, Death Valley Dunes, from mother•land – a large-scale nature photography exhibition by Monica Estabrook: an Illinois artist, high school art teacher, and mother.
Grand Canyon
Explore Grand Canyon: an anti-sublime perspective of the natural wonder from mother•land – a large-scale nature photography exhibition by Monica Estabrook: an Illinois artist, high school art teacher, and mother.
List of Works
Digital Guest Book
Please comment on the art and poetry. Comments will be shared with the artist and poets.
List of Poems
- A Mother's Sacrifice and (Audio Recording) A Mother's Sacrifice by Natylie Marx, BHS
- An Autumn Wind by Rachael Burk, BHS
- Buried Sound and (Audio Recording) Buried Sound by Kelsey Plath, BHS
- Beauty in Anything and (Audio Recording) Beauty in Anything by Claire Stucky, BHS
- Hazy and (Audio Recording) Hazy by Ruby Higgins, BHS
- "No But I Used To" by Christina Bennett
- Ode to the Moon by Sydney Buczynski, HCC
- Ode to the Ones Who Came Before by Alana Clark, HCC
- Outcasted by Bri Berndt, BHS
- Masks by Parker Reichert, BHS
- Poet by Ellie Braun, BHS
- To my Family by John Ziemkowski, HCC
- The Ground that Holds the Coffin Alana Clark, HCC
College Statement
The Joe McCauley Art Gallery is closed until further notice due to the Coronavirus. For more information, please see the Heartland News and Heartland Coronavirus pages.
