Artist's Statement
Jan Kanter is a Chicago photographer with a special interest in nature. Although she enjoys city life and people's activities, most of her images show few signs of human presence. She travels many miles to find lush bluestem grasslands, ferny forests, theatrical trees and rocks, lava fields, and other magical settings. Some of her photographs show emotional landscapes that suggest joy, tranquility, desolation, or chaos. Many are small scenes--chance arrangements of twigs, small frogs on leaves, water droplets, the shadows of dune grasses.
In addition to her nature studies, Kanter also loves the wonderful shapes found at industrial sites, such as storage tanks, pipes, wiring, walls of windows, metal catwalks, and other industrial forms. Chicago has hundreds of interesting bridges, factories, and other structures that are fun to photograph. And, of course, there are the fabulous items to be found on the road--mysterious buildings, prophetic clouds, amusing signs, and plaster rhinoceroses.
Some of the photographs in this collection are from Jan Kanter's series "Jewels of the Forest." She is also at work on several other series, including "Landscapes of the Mind," "The Poetry of Grass," and "Ephemera."
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