Y. Hope Osborn
Little Rock, AR
Expressing imagination and reality that captivates, inspires, and/or informs while enriching lives
MessageY. Hope Osborn publishes ecological experiences that bring pleasure and overcome pain and personal traumas that encourage survivors and expose victimization. She photographs jewels of landscapes and black and white abstract and documentary studies of historic and timeworn architecture alongside texts of history and her story, weaving art with how she/we think, feel, believe, connect, and care.
Hope has an MA in writing and is published with Woods Reader, Plants and Poetry Journal, Whitefish Review, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Writers’ Network, Awakenings, Arkansas Living, and The Sunlight Press. Her works are awarded through Monovisions, Neutral Density, Julia Margaret Cameron, Not Real Art grant, and SWOP 2024 and exhibited online and off in Portland, Oregon; New York City; Santa Paula, California, Arkansas—USA and Barcelona, Spain.
Hope believes being a great author and artist is to be entrusted to express reality and imagination that captivates, inspires, or informs while enriching lives.
Statement
Through all my writing and photography, I speak my truth inviting all to share their truth, making the unknown known. I witness these truths to understand yours and my history, weaving art with how we think feel, believe, connect, and care.
The art of my photography and framing text is inspired by a freedom to express unknown to me in a childhood stifled by abuse. Beyond the desolate darkness of seeing within is a ever fresh curiosity into the wonders of the world from ground to sky and near and far of art and literature and biology and geography. Architectural lines may seem as unforgiving as the bars of a prison on mind, body, and soul. However, contextualizing photography and writing in trauma survival, I bear witness that whatever the circumstance the human spirit, by God’s grace, may ever arise in inspiration, creativity, and life.
My black and white documentary and abstract photograph studies of old, historic, often dilapidated architecture empower you and I to see the minute details of these buildings and our lives. My creative perspective, vivid texture, and rich tonality run alongside texts of history and story. The story of my landscape and flora photography is the nourishing beauty all around for me to but see.
One of the unknowns of the art of photography is it is not often a mere click of a button. I research subjects online and in person and drive and walk many miles. I discover interesting angles, stabilizing for precision and capturing multiple minute focal points away from me to stack for depth of detail. Then, I "paint," adjusting contrast, shadow, light, etc. to suit the subject to meet the meaning I find in the images.
Another truth is art is two-sided—the perspective of creator and the perspective of viewer. Many people are afraid to voice their ideas and feelings about trauma for shame of feeling they did wrong and about art for fear of getting it wrong. In both art and trauma, no voice should be bound. Both creator and viewer may be witness to past, present, and inspiration of future.
2024 Y. Hope Osborn
Artwork for sale Y. Hope Osborn Photography
Stock photos commercial and retail licenses Y. Hope Osborn Media
Y. Hope Osborn complete media portfolio Y. Hope Osborn Portfolio