C.A.
GreenleeCache
Nashville, TN · Artist Photographer
Nashville, TN · Artist Photographer
C.A. Greenlee (Cache) is an artist whose work is preoccupied with the natural world, photographic processes, alchemy and ephemera.
Drawn to what is at the threshold. To disappearing acts and desire paths.
The work asks you to be alive to the simultaneity of when.
Sealed in a silver glass envelope, a box of glass plate negatives spent decades in the dark. Just as cicadas live in the shadows and only to emerge when the timing is right. Shedding whatever they dont need and finally letting themselves be known.
To make a contact print from a glass negative is to give it it's own kind of emergence. New light passes through for the first time in a generation(s). As the image surfaces, what was buried becomes visible.
Cache first learned darkroom printing as a teenager out of a trailer in rural Alabama. Now holding a BFA and MFA, Cache teaches community darkroom education at Belmont University and maintains a private art practice.
Handheld, hand-made, and light-tight, the bee lining box is used to catch a honeybee in order to find a wild hive. Transforming the bee box into a pinhole camera has the ancient practice of beelining taking on a second identity as a photographic form of research.
Like most of the work found here, this is an evolving project, please stay tuned. Exciting developments under way.
The honeybee communicates through elegant and intricate movement. The success of her dances are tied to her hive's survival. Detailed directions are expressed through circular moves that the others will then repeat, enabling them to use their angelic wings to beeline toward creating the world's earliest form of sweetness.
Dance has long been a practice for survival for humans too. And the vertical axis for which dancers orbit is an ancient line...
connecting the many hands of the deities who came before.
A ribbon from a package sent from the Navy, 1942. Huntsville, Alabama.
An excerpt from my great grandmother's scrapbook.
Contact Cache for assignments, any questions, or just to send a note.
photo@cacheville.com
Based in Nashville, TN
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