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October 1, 2015
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By Kimberly M. Aquilina
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If Lisa Hinkle’s friends or family find a strange bug or a dead bird, they call her. “For a while, I used things in my photographs that were mostly plant-based — flowers or berries or fruit — but, also, I would use things I would find on the ground, like pieces of glass. I go walking a lot, so I would use feathers I found on the ground. People knew I used these things in my work, so they would give me things they find. You almost feel like you have to pay tribute to what this beautiful thing is.” Hinkle began her life of curiosity in Hazleton, but photography wasn’t her first love. Hinkle came to the Scranton area to study French and journalism at Marywood. “I decided to take a photography course, because I know journalists need a photographer sometimes and what if you don’t have one? You should at least know how to learn to use a camera.” After basic photography, Hinkle was hooked and continued on to graduate school to get her master of fine arts degree. Hinkle relocated to Clarks Summit, got married and was an assistant professor at Marywood University for 19 years. But that part of her life came to an end when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. “I think it’s because of that I’m a little more aware of the idea of mortality,” she said. “It’s one way of coping with that.” Hinkle’s upcoming exhibit at the University of Scranton features digital photography, including scanned works. She said she was reluctant to make the move from film to digital. “I love film cameras,” she said. “The scanning began due to my lack of drawing skills. My first experiment was because I wanted a feather graphic in my book and I can’t draw. I thought, ‘It almost has just as much detail as a photograph that’s made on a negative!’ You get all the detail, all the resolution — I was just fascinated by it. That was 2005.” “The exhibit that is up right now is about three years of a culmination of work,” Hinkle
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Lisa Hinkle’s “Artichokes, Ribbon, and Manuscript,” is among her works displayed in the exhibit “(Im)Perfect Specimen.”
said. “Either they [the photos] say what I want to about the objects or how I feel about them.” “For me I try to — even out of the uglier aspects of things — show that certain things are beautiful and worth [having] a place in a photograph,” she added. Influenced by the Dutch masters and Roman fresco, Hinkle said she loves straight still life, like Ansel Adams, but she appreciates the beauty of something that is fading and crumbling. “It’s kind of an overlap of all of those things.” Thirty pieces from the last three years — and some from as early as 2006 — are included in the exhibit. “I think maybe it’s a little bit to show how I thought then and how that has evolved. That’s, I guess, what the show is about.”
Hinkle expressed her excitement about the lecture and the show. “I like showing someone something small and wonderful at times. I think in our world, we have to look around a lot more and we get so busy that we don’t. If my pictures make you look around a bit more, that would make me happy. “It’s been a great journey.” If you go: What: “(Im)Perfect Specimen: Photographs by Lisa Hinkle” When: Friday, Oct. 2, for the artist’s lecture (5 p.m.) and exhibit reception (6-9 p.m.); exhibit is open during gallery hours through Friday, Oct. 9 Where: Hinkle’s lecture will be given at Brennan Hall, room 228, on the University of Scranton campus. The exhibit in Hyland Hall, fourth floor.