ARTIST STATEMENT
The Gowanus Canal is toxic, beautiful, valuable, its future uncertain. It will look different years from now. The canal appears to me to be in a kind of tenuous, vulnerable, compelling, suspension. Now we see it; soon, we won't. In photography, its always about the light, as it is with the Canal too. But there is something else there. There is something in the atmosphere, an expectation as to what will happen. As its future is being decided, the canal and the land appear to me to be in a kind of tenuous, vulnerable, compelling, suspension. As a consequence, color is as much a consideration as content and composition. Bright, sunshiny primary colors exist in some images; earthy, atmospheric, moody hues in others; while shimmering, dusky, evening blues and golds emanate in the rest. Did the Canal give up its secrets to me at last, or, knowing that change is imminent, has a creative urgency within spurred me to make these particular images at this moment in time? Only time will tell.

ARTIST BIO
Jackie Weisberg is a Brooklyn-born, Brooklyn-based portrait photographer specializing in children's portraits. Since 2009 she has produced photographs for the Berkeley Carroll School, for their web site and print media. She has been photographing the Gowanus Canal and its environs for over two decades culminating in her-award winning series, 'Gowanus Impressions.' Two of the photographs are in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Historical Society.

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