As an artist, I am drawn to incidences where the domestication and wilderness overlap and interact. The work I create takes various forms from sculptural installation, video and sound works as well as photographic studies and series. My current work draws from my experience visiting and photographing a parcel of forest fire land in Washington USA over the past year. The photographs include geometric sculptures and mythic performative acts by my sons that respond to the desolation of the forest while acknowledging the impending growth just beneath the surface of the land. The work is a study in the silence and death encapsulated in forest fires as an inside-out look at traditional views on the sublime and beauty in the wilderness.
Melinda Hurst Frye is a photographic artist working in themes of implied environments and shared experiences. She exhibits at CORE gallery in Seattle, Washington. Melinda holds an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and is a dedicated member of Society for Photographic Education. Melinda Hurst Frye teaches photography at the Art Institute of Seattle as well as occasional workshops in the northwest region.