About Geraldine
Baltimore City
Specializing in painting, photography and film, Geraldine Pontius's newest work combines her landscape photographs and watercolors into images explaining place narratives and dreams.
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To Be Sure
Painted and photographed, the landscape envelopes, defines memory.
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Thoughts of Home.JPGHeading home
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Back Home.JPGRows of backdoors
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As I remembered it.jpgField memory Cromwell Valley
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Shadow Edge.JPGCamera Obscura Foliage
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Woodsman.jpgBirches bear witness to the woodsman
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Waters Edge.JPGCaretaker's Cottage Memory
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Thoughts Above.JPGThe sky is filled with memory
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In the blink of an eye.JPGRoad appears in the blink of an eye
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CottageGarden.jpgCottage garden
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Drifting with the tide.JPGAdrift, floating with the Tide
Landscape in Memories and Dreams
I began experimenting with photo manipulation in the early 1970's. Technology hadn't achieved the level I needed to capture the specific content I wanted, but I made do with film and color xerox prints made into a collage by hand. Once digital files were the norm my work exploded into a new narrative direction since color, texture, photography and my scanned original watercolor images could be combined in ways that brought life to imaginary and interpretive reality based landscapes.
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Pictures At ExhibitionUntouched landscape sunrise
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ReadyRowhouse.jpgRows of derelict buildings line the way to a country vision
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HamptonRoad.jpgRoad to slave quarters at Hampton Historic Site with designation of a pastoral farm hovering beyond in the sky, meant to evoke dreams the 400 slaves might have once had.
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Pontius_Forest Murmers_DigitalArt_2020.jpegPennsylvania Avenue row houses emerge from a forest of birch trees, Martin Luther King looks on
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Pontius_Calling_digitalart_2020.jpegRiver vision flows back to the mural of Martin Luther King on the side of a row house on Pennsylvania Avenue
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Pontius_Pennsylvania Ave_DigiatArt_2020.jpegVisions of Pennsylvania Avenue as it once was a farm