Letters Never Sent

Beverly Rayner constructions are often built around photographic imagery and take on a wide variety of formats, often sculptural. She freely uses any type of photographic process that serves my purpose for each piece, including her own traditional black and white photographs, tintypes, daguerreotypes, alternative processes, or digital images, as well as found photographs and negatives, even x-rays. Frequently alter or physically manipulate the images through painting, peeling, cutting, embedding in wax, etc. Her use of other materials (both cast-off and new) is even more diverse, including wood, metal, lenses, paper, beeswax, and a vast array of objects. The images are integrated into some combination of these materials, a process that culminates in the formulation of singular, hybrid image-objects.