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I finally made a way to view online the gallery show I have up here in Charlottesville at this place. You can see what it looks like in the space if you visit here.It got an extended run of an extra month, so it will be up through August. All the proceeds of the show go towards the Rock House renovation project. The Rock House is a historic home built in 1926 by a black family that carted the rocks up from the riverbed and hand built the house. It was abandoned for the last 30 years and was recently opened back up right before renovation, which is when I took these photos. Now all of these scenes and details are gone since the house has been stripped down to its absolute bare structural essentials. Here is a more formal description of the ideas behind the show:
ARTIFACTS OF LIGHT AND MEMORY:
the C.B. Holt "Rock House"
a new photography series by james hall
For over 30 years, the C.B. Holt Rock House has been abandoned. Its history, and the history of those that lived there, have remained shadowed and unknown to many. When Legal Aid Justice Center proposed to open the house up once again and renovate it in an adaptive reuse project, the important story of this place and its residents was given new life. This series of photographs is a first look at a place long-removed from daylight, brought to life once again. The images also examine the nature of time as it relates to the physical world and the world of memory. How do decay, memory, and time relate? As years pass, how much can be reclaimed of the past, and how much is lost forever in the shadowy distance from the present?
ARTIFACTS OF LIGHT AND MEMORY:
the C.B. Holt "Rock House"
a new photography series by james hall
For over 30 years, the C.B. Holt Rock House has been abandoned. Its history, and the history of those that lived there, have remained shadowed and unknown to many. When Legal Aid Justice Center proposed to open the house up once again and renovate it in an adaptive reuse project, the important story of this place and its residents was given new life. This series of photographs is a first look at a place long-removed from daylight, brought to life once again. The images also examine the nature of time as it relates to the physical world and the world of memory. How do decay, memory, and time relate? As years pass, how much can be reclaimed of the past, and how much is lost forever in the shadowy distance from the present?