Echo Lake, Colorado

Lily pad pond

1998: CPAC moves to 1513 Boulder Street in Denver’s Highlands neighborhood, sharing space with the Carol Keller Gallery. Seven years of intense activity begins under leadership of R. Skip Kohloff (President) and Lisbeth Neergaard Kohloff (Gallery Coordinator). Program highlights: Jerry Uelsmann, Emmett and Elijah Gowin, Ronald Wohlauer, Susan Goldstein, Sally Stockhold, Betty Hahn.

2006: R. Skip Kohloff retires after 19 years as president. He and his wife, Lis, leave the board, having served 27 and 24 years respectively. CPAC transitions to a center-without-walls run by a volunteer Board of Directors.

Artist Statement:
While I have never set out to photograph gardens, I have over the years made singular photographs in garden-like environments around the world; collecting with the camera but for reasons that I could not explain. With the genesis of this suite of images, inspired by the remembrance of Zen gardens of Japan, the reason for this ‘collecting’ was realized.

My interest in making this work was not to record how any actual scene looked but was rooted more in how a memory ‘feels’. I was concerned with a finished work that preserved the experience while placing it in another context that allowed for meditation and, in doing so, move beyond the depiction of reality to a more profound and personal experience. The work is less specific and more universal as I believe we all share like-kinded remembrances. My hope was to communicate a sense of the familiar while sustaining a vague recollection as if in a passing perception or reverie; an intangible that exists in our minds and soul…even if for just an occasional fleeting moment.