Ellen Sollod : An Intriguing Artist

There were four distinct types of artworks in this exhibition.

That is what intrigued me.

It demonstrates Ellen Sollod’s experimental approach to photography

Above you see an overview of the installation. The large bw digital image below “La Flaneuse” has a ghost image of  the artist. the artist explained to us that ” I place myself in the scene and the shutter opens based on a time delay. I stand in the scene for about half of the exposure and exit while the camera continues to record the image. When the shutter closes, based on the time that I have set, my image is ‘ghosted’. ”

Flaneuse of course takes us back to the male flaneur of late 19th century, the idea of walking the streets of a city dabbling in this and that. In Sollod’s photographs the artist is invisible to others, a ghost that wanders freely.

La flanêuse (Hotel de Ville), 35 x 44”, archival pigment print, capture 2024, print 2026

La flanêuse (Lugdunum), 35 x 44”, archival pigment print, capture 2024, print 2026

The works below are taken by a pinhole camera . They are much smaller and have incredible nuances of shades of gray

Tete D’or

See the bronze branch above!

And finally this amazing group of intimate photographs of flowers gel transfered onto old book pages.

Three completely contrasting works, different techniques, different scales, different sensibilities. And the bronze branch!

Hats off to Ellen for being willing to tryso many types of work

Below are public art works called“Collection and Transformation from the Brightwater Treatment Plant by Ellen Sollod showing yet another aspect of her work.

Ellen’s work is illustrated in my chapteron “Water Cycles and Water treatments included in my book Setting Our Hearts on Fire. I descirbed them as glass microcosms set into a stainless steel honeycomb structure incased in blue mirrored glass and lighted from above.” Pretty astonishing!

The great contrast to the works on exhibit demonstrates Sollod’s versatility as an artist.

During her artist convrsation with Liz Brown

Sollod is holding her small pinhole cameragla