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Finding connection: Las Cruces-based photographer's inspiration stems from nature
Elizabeth Abrams connects deeply with nature.
She uses photography as a medium to tell this story.
Beginning on Saturday, Aug. 19, at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, Abrams will have 24 pieces of work in the exhibit “Antidotes: Seeing Beauty, Finding Connection.”
There will be an artist’s reception from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 19.
The show will continue in the museum’s Arts Corridor through Dec. 2.
“My own journey of reconnecting with the landscape of the Chihuahuan Desert has brought experiences of deep healing and meaning,” Abrams says. “I think about photography as a practice of seeing the land and animals with love, care, and attention, and acknowledging our interdependence.”
The Las Cruces resident’s show also includes a “Death and Life” display, a memorial work dedicated to horses and other animals.
Abrams grew up in Alamogordo and Las Cruces, with multiple generations of farming and ranching on both sides of her family. Abrams returned to Las Cruces after a 15-year career in federal government and related work in Washington, D.C.
After changing careers, she now practices as a mental health counselor focusing on grief, trauma and ecotherapy.
She says her landscape photographs reflect the light and texture of the environment and the seasons, whether it’s the Rio Grande or the Organ Mountains.
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“This is my way of contemplating the mutual antidotes humans and the rest of nature might be able to offer each other in facing the unique challenges of the times we live in,” she says.
