Excerpt “Ocyrhoë” from Metamorphoses, a book of photographs by Kate Joyce with text from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
I was 18-years old. I traveled throughout Chile alone for seven months. I meandered the cocoon-shaped country. I made photographs. I became conscious of Change. It was a time of personal metamorphosis.
I returned to the United States and lost my way. My negatives from this journey went into incubation. Twenty years later the photographs have emerged in the form of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
There are fifteen books containing over 250 stories in Ovid’s epic poem. In Chile I made upwards of 1,500 black & white negatives. I scanned the film. I read the myths. I used the stories and language to understand and edit the photographs.
Where my photographs and the imagery within Ovid’s telling of the myths intertwine, we have a new metamorphoses.
—Kate Joyce
Excerpt “Deucalion & Pyrrha” from Metamorphoses, a book of photographs by Kate Joyce with text from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Excerpt “Perseus & Atlas” from Metamorphoses, a book of photographs by Kate Joyce with text from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
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