The Girl of My Dreams by Stacy Morrison

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The Girl of My Dreams

Copyright Stacy Morrison 2024

Updated Jun 2020

Topics Arts, Beauty, Becoming, Civil War, Conceptual, Documentary, Dreams, Emotion, Exposing History, Fashion, Feminism, Film Stills, Fine Art, Freedom, Gender, Historical, Historical art project, History, Landscape, Mixed Medium, New York City, Photography, Portraiture, research, Rhode Island, Spirituality, Still life, strong women, Sylvia DeWolf Ostrander, the girl of my dreams, Womens Rights

My photographs examine the life of Sylvia DeWolf Ostrander (1841-1925). Our story begins with a small trunk abandoned on a New York City Street. I utilize the primary materials which remain from her life, haunt the places she has been, read her journals, wear her clothing, and listen to her with intent and empathy, to photograph her life lived long ago in the present. I imagine backwards, an apparition in her bygone era, and she visits me in the present in my dreams. The photographs are traces of our life together. The photographs on the site represent a small sample from a much larger body of work.

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