Artist Statement
Why
do I take pictures of busted windows and creepy abandoned places and objects?
Because of the vigor and life these things once had. Because somebody spent
hours every day for years looking out that window, sitting in that chair.
Because time is unstoppable, memory is fleeting, and life goes on. But I am
here now, a silent witness to the march of progress.
For
ten years I worked for microscopists and pathologists as a medical
photographer. They trained me to appreciate the incredible detail and beauty of
things unseen by most, disgusting to many. That sensibility is still with me;
those places that are unnoticed at best, eyesores at worst, attract me like a
powerful magnet.
My
camera records evidence of the juncture between the past and the present. My photographs bring together the
present and the future.
My
intent is to call to mind an awareness of the transience of life and our place
in the world.
Biography
Marie
Craig has worked as a photographer since before she owned a camera.
Undergraduate education in Art and Biology and a Master’s degree in
Neurobiology from Clark University led to work as a medical photographer and
illustrator for over a decade. After leaving the academic environment, Marie
focused her creative energies on freelance projects in medical photography,
illustration, and graphic design, as well as in operating a small general
photography business. In 2011, she co-founded Fountain Street Fine Art, a
contemporary art gallery in Framingham, MA. As its co-director, she produces,
promotes, and curates exhibits which change monthly.
Marie
photographs places and things that have a hidden, forgotten beauty within them.
Her work has received a number of awards, and has been shown in galleries and
museums throughout the Boston area, where she lives with her husband, many
children and menagerie.
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