After earning her BA at the University of Toronto, Canadian contemporary artist Rosanne Morris spent over a year backpacking abroad. Inspired by the book Children of the Kibbutz by Lionel Tiger, she lived on a settlement near the Lebanese border and later at Neve Shalom, a peace-focused village near Jerusalem.
For the past decade, Rosanne has focused on her art practice in her Guelph Studio, transforming fleeting moments of light into luminous contemporary works. Traveling with her camera in hand is her greatest source of inspiration.
Essence of Being is a series of six limited editioned works exploring transformation through light and form. Each image begins with a photograph of sunlight on metal, reimagined through layered digital abstraction. These fluid, folded shapes - part plane, part curve, part contour - hover weightlessly against deep, dark grounds. They are at once organic and architectural.
