Memories are elusive and irrational things, sensual remnants of experiences embedded in our neural pathways because they affected our consciousness profoundly. Photographs share with memories their inevitable partiality and subjectivity, and I liked how this project manifested these congruities. Each pair of black-and-white images resides in a hinged tin enclosure, the tonality and physicality of the photographic object reinforcing its keepsake quality. The modesty, sensitivity, and conceptual/material harmony of the project stuck with me long after I encountered the series. It’s my pick so that others, too, might be given the opportunity for contemplation it offers.
–Lisa Hostetler, Curator in ChargeGeorge Eastman Museum, Juror; Lensculture Black and White Award 2020

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STATEMENT: Dreams are quirky phenomena. Existing in that liminal space we are confronted with situations we can’t quite explain, often fraught with absurdities and illogical occurrences. They challenge the delicate balance between perception and the subconscious mind.

I rarely remember entire dream sequences; instead, I find myself left with confused snippets. Like the boxes of pictures kept in tins in a drawer...a collection of pictures I barely recognize, yet somehow relate to as having experienced. Awake, I am left wondering ‐ was it really a dream, or a previously forgotten bit of a random memory?

PROCESS: As the referents are ephemeral things, I have placed these images in tins – simulations of the old tins in which people stored photographs and mementos, a collection of visions they sorted through, sifted over and sometimes shared.

MATERIALS: Original photographs, Epson Surecolor P800 pigment ink, Hahnemuhle Baryta FA paper, cold wax, archival Fomcor, adhesives

DIMENSIONS: Diptych Photo Object - 4.75”w x 3.76”h; As framed above -13.1”sq

EDITION: Each diptych is an edition of 25 with two artist proofs.

AWARDS: Various works from this series have received the following awards and honors

2020 Lensculture Black and White Awards - Juror’s Pick; Lisa Hostetler, Curator George Eastman Musuem
11th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards (2018) - Winner, Overall Julia Margaret Cameron Award; Winner, Cell Phone Winner; Runner-Up Alternative Process; Runner Up Digital Manipulation and Collage; Runner Up, Open Theme
2018 Texas Photographic Society Alternative Process and Integrated Media Exhibition - Honorable Mention
Rfotofolio Selections 2018 - awarded Top 3 Selection for 3D Photo by juror Collier Brown
Photolucida's 2017 Critical Mass Competition - Top 200 Finalist

EXHIBITIONS:

Solo:

Diana Nicholette Jeon/Nights As Inexorable As The Sea, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland OR (Oct. 2020)
Diana Nicholette Jeon/Nights As Inexorable As The Sea, Disorder Gallery, Sydney, AU - Head On Photo Festival Featured Exhibition (Nov 2020)

Group:

Barcelona Foto Bienale - 5th Biennale of Fine Art & Documentary Photography, Nau Bostik
2018 Texas Photographic Society Alternative Process and Integrated Media Exhibition
Self Portrait, Photoplace Gallery
Diptych, A Smith Gallery
Winter Solstice, Griffin Museum of Photography
Medium Festival of Photography’s Size Matters 2018, Sparks Gallery
4th Annual Group Show, Davis Orton Gallery
1st Annual Members Exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography
Mixed Media Miniature, Koa Gallery
Fairy Tales and Nuclear Bombs, Lightbox Gallery