Mindi Rhoades

Using Benning’s images as provocation, evidence, and guide, we’ll explore questions around narrative, memory, connection, and loss. We’ll also consider the significance of the images’ construction and Benning’s use of qualities like transparency, opacity, nesting, and layering as visual metaphors and tools. What do such tools allow? Encourage? Inhibit? Prevent? Participants will be also invited to consider what it might mean to apply Benning’s processes to their own image-memories and experiences—pleasing and painful—as attempts to make personal meaning from information, events, and relationships.