On a whirlwind 48 hour first-time trip to Salt Lake City, Utah in winter, I headed out to capture mountain views from the Bonneville Salt Flats. My drive from the city took me into a growing dense fog where I found myself standing at the I-80 Westbound rest area with barely a few yards of visibility. The world had become ghostly behind a thick veil of mist, the mountains completely erased, miles of salt flats where I stood vanished before me, it was both eery and wondrously magnificent. I simply stood, in awe, appreciating the calm and indescribable hush of stillness.
A multidisciplinary, self-taught visual artist, Kelly is drawn to the perfection of nature and beauty found in the imperfect, she gravitates to organic forms and striking textural shifts created by luminosity & intricacies of line and shadow. She is pulled by the lull of the ocean and the solace of quiet spaces. Utilizing B&W photography to remove the extraneous & create a more emotive expression, her compositions look beyond the obvious to isolate her subjects and convey an intimate sense of place. Kelly thoughtfully captures imagery that possesses a much-needed calm, a quiet stillness.