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SABRANNA MALIN | AN ARTIST’S STATEMENT
SABRANNA MALIN | AN ARTIST’S STATEMENT
I have enjoyed photography since picking up my first Canon AE-1 in 1976 while studying journalism. I love the idea of telling stories with photos—a good photograph is worth a thousand words. My first love is writing poetry; as a student at Santa Fe Community College, I am re-discovering my creative roots. On a recent road trip from California to my adopted home in New Mexico, I stayed at a restored Route 66 motel in Holbrook, Arizona. The vintage cars in the parking lot spoke to me of travels and adventure. I remembered family road trips as a child. Inspired by the synchronicity of being 66 years old while traveling on Route 66, I photographed these relics of a bygone era to remind me that our life journeys are worth documenting. I feel blessed to share my journeys (real and imagined) through words and images.
Sabranna Malin began writing early; her first poem was published when she was ten. Several of her poems have appeared in Trickster, the literary journal of Northern New Mexico College. She co-hosted a poetry event in her hometown of Espanola, New Mexico, with a number of local poets and writers, including a Poet Laureate of Santa Fe. She recently served as an intern for this volume of the Santa Fe Literary Review.
