SENTIMENTO: immagini d'italia
Art Resources Gallery
Santa Barbara, California
2008
"Why some people are called into action for the crusade of creative expression and not others remains one of life's unique mysteries. And how one subsequently elects to answer that calling is equally curious. But no matter whether one is pushing a myriad of viscous pigments around a stretched piece of canvas or taking a camera out into the world, one certainty is that the results are as magical and diverse as the means... Patricia Houghton Clarke’s... imagery is as much a tour of her soul as it is the streets and plazas of Italy. The true beauty of photography is that it can say as much about the person with the camera in their hands as it does the world in front of it. And that it can capture sentiments just as easily as it does light."
Brett Leigh Dicks, Curator
Santa Barbara, California
2008
"Why some people are called into action for the crusade of creative expression and not others remains one of life's unique mysteries. And how one subsequently elects to answer that calling is equally curious. But no matter whether one is pushing a myriad of viscous pigments around a stretched piece of canvas or taking a camera out into the world, one certainty is that the results are as magical and diverse as the means... Patricia Houghton Clarke’s... imagery is as much a tour of her soul as it is the streets and plazas of Italy. The true beauty of photography is that it can say as much about the person with the camera in their hands as it does the world in front of it. And that it can capture sentiments just as easily as it does light."
Brett Leigh Dicks, Curator
