Sophia Rohlfsen
Through her work in film photography, Sophia explores how the act of seeing controls what emotions we feel. Her work on the sky and flying objects centers the sun as a subject which brings fear and awe in equal parts as it chooses to let birds pass through the sky touched by warmth or strike down planes, whose hubris cannot go unpunished.
Her portraits of trees coming out of darkness ask viewers to give themselves up to the experience of being receptive to an unfamiliar and formidable presence through their large size and their atypically dark tone. The time given by viewers to deciphering the details from the dark will be repaid with familiarity, recognition, and an ultimate sense of understanding.
