Visual
FALL 2024Linda Briskin
The Desert Snail and Brittle Bush
Intimate Conversations captures Snail nestled in dialogue with, and protected by, various desert plants and woods. These photographs visualize imagined and sensuous relationships within the desert community. 
The Desert Snail and Eremophila
The spiral on the snail shell is a uniting symbol across nature and human culture. In this time of climate catastrophes, we need representations of intimate and peaceful inters-species coexistence in harmony with nature.
The Desert Snail and Rock
The Desert Snail and Desert Wood
The life of the snail Eremarionta immaculata speaks to the extraordinary creativity and resilience of nature. This white snail is a hermaphrodite that survives the brutal and challenging conditions of the desert by going dormant in the ground for two to three years. 
The Desert Snail and Hong Kong Orchid
Like the spiral in the snail shell—a uniting symbol across nature and human culture—this series highlights cross-species interdependence. 
The Desert Snail and Euphorbia
The Desert Snail and Bougainvillea
Anna Tsing captures this vividly in The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins: “Staying alive—for every species—requires livable collaborations . . . Without collaborations, we all die.”
The Desert Snail and Mallow
Linda Briskin
Linda Briskin is a writer and fine art photographer. She is inspired by the fluid crossover between the imagined and the real, the natural and the constructed, and the authentic and the fabricated. In these interstices, viewers are provoked and unsettled. She has a passion for nature and seeks lines, shadows, texture and reflections, and images that last only a breath. As a writer, she is attracted to the conversation between text and image in the Greek tradition of Ekphrasis (the cross-inspiration of art disciplines.) She exhibits widely, has had numerous solo exhibitions, and participated in many group shows. Briskin’s images have been chosen for many online juried shows. Recently for Urban Landscapes sponsored by NY Photo Curator (Honourable Mention), Abandoned at Chateau Gallery (Kentucky), and The Same But Different Exhibition sponsored by NY Center for Photographic Art (Honorable Mention.) Her photographs have been published widely in literary journals and camera magazines: recently, in PhotoEd Canadian Camera, The Poeming Pidgeon, South85, Humana Obscura, and Masque & Spectacle. Her website is lindabriskinphotography.com and you can find her on Instragram @linda.briskin.