Pure — Nickolas Carl Photography

Small, Silver Gelatin Print, 2016

Amorphous, Silver Gelatin Print, 2016

Middle Rest, Silver Gelatin Print, 2016

Gaze, Silver Gelatin Print, 2016

Animal, Silver Gelatin Print, 2016

Turned, Silver Gelatin Print, 2016

Cover, Silver Gelatin Print, 2016

Cleanse, Silver Gelatin Print, 2016

Buried, Silver Gelatin Print, 2016

Out, Silver Gelatin Print, 2016

Release, Silver Gelatin Print, 2016

A-way, Silver Gelatin Print, 2016

“Pure”
The guilty pointer’s
Fingers growing longer

Object of conversation
Surviving the duration

Released from adolescence

Wandering

Sand being salt
What the sea left behind

High and dry

Fell

Fall

Falling

Soft now
Warm and all over
Beautiful

Yes you are

Amorphous

Weathered

Cleanse

Still everything will stay

Burrrried
Dug out

I am me

Finally

Claiming my own purity

These images were all shot in the summer of 2015 on a beautiful trip across the country. They had time to sit alone before I was able to print them and bring them to life in the darkroom in 2016.
I graduated from Humboldt State University in the Spring of 2013 with a BA in Studio Art and Art Education. After graduating I moved to Portland, OR and have lived here ever since. In 2018 I received an MAT in Art Education and I currently teach high school Ceramics and Photography. I have shown work in Solo and Group exhibitions in Arcata and Eureka, CA as well as Portland and Astoria, OR.