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Consisting of still images and handwritten notes, zigzag explores the content of everyday life and examines the ways time is described and annotated. Photographs, with elements of self-portraiture and allusions to film, literature and the seasons, work in playful and intentional dialogue with texts selected from years of agendas, journals and correspondence. In their confluence—and as one does with memory—experience the idea of moving through time at different speeds and directions.
Rachel Beamer uses photography and writing in her work to explore the architecture of time and its fluidity where memory is concerned. She received an MFA in Photographic and Electronic Media from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD and an MA in French Studies from American University, Washington, DC. She had a 2023 solo exhibition, As the evening wore on, at the Sally Otto Gallery, University of Mount Union, Alliance, OH, and has shown her work at venues across the United States including Foley Gallery, NY, The Gallery at Vivid Solutions, Washington, DC, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, and Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX.
