Cheryle St. Onge

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The photographs from Natural Findings began with the idea that our early foray into the natural world is not only innate; it is familial. When an older sibling offers up a jar of glowing fireflies, or grandmother puts a Winter Berry on your tongue, they are in a colloquial, familiar manner, forging a path and beckoning to share the natural world. Natural Findings explores the curiosity and awe of our early grasp of nature. The photographs become both the shared means of a longer examination and the conduit of our own private recollection of nature.

Cheryle St. Onge works with an 8 x 10 camera and counts her work as a collaborative process with family and friends who bring her snake skins and porcupine quills and shoreline of her native landscape of New Hampshire. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009, and has been on the faculty at Clark University, Maine College of Art and The University of New Hampshire. Her photographs are in several books and private and public collections; the University of New Mexico Art Museum, Houston MFA and the Guggenheim Foundation.