Dylan Hausthor:聽What the Rain Will Bring
I was recently visiting my hometown and stopped to fill up my car with gas. I noticed a woman sitting outside the gas station drinking coffee and recognized her as my old ballet teacher. I sat down next to her and we caught up. She had been going blind for a decade since I last saw her. She had fallen out of love, started growing a garden, and found god. She had a small collection of freshly picked mushrooms next to her and handed me one, saying 鈥淢ushrooms have no gender, did you know that?鈥�
Named after David Arora鈥檚 mushroom identification guide, What The Rain Might Bring is a cross-disciplinary project that explores the complexities of storytelling, faith, folklore, and the inherent queerness of the natural world.
The often disregarded underbelly of a post-fact world seems to be the simultaneous beauty and danger of fiction. I鈥檓 interested in image-making as a process of hybridity鈥攚eavings of myth filled with tangents and nuances, treading the lines between investigative journalism, disinformation, performance, acts of obsession, and self-conscious manipulation. Photography鈥檚 ability to promote belief is a power not dissimilar to that of faith. By using modes of making that are traditionally linked to fact-finding, I hope for the viewers and readers of my work to find themselves in a space between fiction and reality鈥攖o push past questions of validity that form the base tradition of colonialism in storytelling and folklore and into a much more human sense of reality: faulted, broken, and real.
All these images are from the local newspaper of the town where I live.
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I was recently visiting my hometown and stopped to fill up my car with gas. I noticed a woman sitting outside the gas station drinking coffee and recognized her as my old ballet teacher. I sat down next to her and we caught up. She had been going blind for a decade since I last saw her. She had fallen out of love, started growing a garden, and found god. She had a small collection of freshly picked mushrooms next to her and handed me one, saying 鈥淢ushrooms have no gender, did you know that?鈥�
Named after David Arora鈥檚 mushroom identification guide, What The Rain Might Bring is a cross-disciplinary project that explores the complexities of storytelling, faith, folklore, and the inherent queerness of the natural world.
The often disregarded underbelly of a post-fact world seems to be the simultaneous beauty and danger of fiction. I鈥檓 interested in image-making as a process of hybridity鈥攚eavings of myth filled with tangents and nuances, treading the lines between investigative journalism, disinformation, performance, acts of obsession, and self-conscious manipulation. Photography鈥檚 ability to promote belief is a power not dissimilar to that of faith. By using modes of making that are traditionally linked to fact-finding, I hope for the viewers and readers of my work to find themselves in a space between fiction and reality鈥攖o push past questions of validity that form the base tradition of colonialism in storytelling and folklore and into a much more human sense of reality: faulted, broken, and real.
All these images are from the local newspaper of the town where I live.
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"I was recently visiting my hometown and stopped to fill up my car with gas," writes photographer Dylan Hausthor.
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