→ Photo Info (Here) Shawne Brown Untitled, East Tennessee (Landscape)
2005 Shawne Brown is one of the artists who’s work in the show represents the long-lived experience of Tennessee. Both of the photographs in the show were taken in East Tennessee near where he grew up. A well known landscape can be restrictive to a photographer until you discover a fresh perspective somehow within this view that you already know so well. Shawne’s photograph of the East Tennessee landscape is a composition of swirling balance and tidal wave-like movement suggested amid the relative stillness of the land and the trees. It resides somewhere between the temporality of smoke and water even though it is neither. The best landscapes are usually fleeting. One day those trees will be gone. The kudzu will claim even more than it has already. It won’t ever look the same but it is beautiful in the moment that it is.

Untitled. East Tennessee 2005
Shawne Brown
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