Alice Gebura

Photographer & Media Artist

A Dream Within a Dream: The Bardo

"We are no other than a moving row of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go." - The Rubaiyat, Omar Khayyan

Images and film explore the liminal spaces between death and rebirth.For this series, film negatives taken with my vintage Hasselblad that might be cut, melted, or scratched are integrated with litho film positives and negatives, ink painting, and digitally-created text. They interpolate a visual vocabulary for death and transformation based on Juan Rulfo's "Pedro Paramo."

I'm in a black box
darkroom print, 6" x 6"

It feels as if someone were walking over us
darkroom print, 6" x 6"

They buried me in your grave
darkroom print, 6" x 6"

My bones decided to rest
darkroom print, 6" x 7"

My soul turned to ice
darkroom print, 6" x 6"

We're going to be buried for a long time
darkroom print, 6" x 6"

My mouth is filled with dirt
darkroom print, 6" x 6"

Someday these sounds will die away
darkroom print, 6" x 6"

Stairway to Paradise (1 min)