Carry My Heart, June 2022

Carry My Heart was curated by Troy Colby from submissions to our open call. From Troy:

First off- Thank you for all of your submissions.  Taking that leap to share your work with the world is brave, it is also opening your own vulnerability to others.  So, to everyone that submitted my hat is off to you! You matter and your work is important.

I have been going through these selections daily.  Certain images stayed, others floated in and out of the mix.  That is the beauty of all art forms.  Are we having a bad day? Was our coffee terrible this morning? Or has your evening been one for the books?  All of this can affect the music, art, movies, and selection of photographs we all seek. 

To narrow it down, I searched for images that tied into the theme of “Carry my Heart.”  I looked for emotional images that showed empathy, compassion, vulnerability, all while giving me hope for humanity.

Each of our own life experiences- family life, struggles and passions are different, yet there is still a thread that we all have.  That is something I hung onto in selecting this work, each image Carries the heart throughout the work. 

Best-
Troy

Selected Artists:

Alexandra Brodsky, Diana Hagues, Maura Jamieson, Elizabeth Clark Libert, Allison Plass, Pamela Landau Connolly, Roma Moskalenko, Patricia Joyce, Bridget Badore, Alexis Howard, Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez, Tynan Byrne, Elizabeth Calderone, Cris Veit, Kseniia Apresian, D. M. Terblanche, Dominic Quagliozzi, Liliana Guzmán, Heather Witten, Lingxue Hao, Mary-Kate Williams, Katalina Simon, Lucie March, Maria Siorba, Melissa Baerwald, Anna Mikuskova, Mikayla Millard, Seth Cook, Julia Vandenoever, Mithila Jariwala, Mikaela Martin, Lauren Forster, Nicole Schwartz, Oliver Raschka, Olivia Fernandez, Nina Maria Allmoslechner, Shannon Maltbie-Davis, Sarah Sido, William Mark Sommer