Constance Keller was born in New Jersey and spent her childhood in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Boston College and studied at Parsons School of Design in New York City, Silvermine Arts Center in New Canaan, Connecticut and the International Center of Photography in New York City and with Vantage Points Artists. Her work has been selected to be shown in juried group exhibitions throughout the country.. Keller formerly worked as an editor at Condé Nast and is presently an interior designer. She lives and works in New Canaan, Connecticut.
The library and the hardware store, my favorite places since the beginning. Tools of the trade: a camera, the poet's word as my muse and the place where I meet the world that day. These offer a chance to say, forgive me if I forget the wonder that is before me, your gift is just within my reach and I want to take note before it is gone. Looking through the camera offers a focus, time stops and I ask how long has this moment taken to reach me here? Often found in poetry, structure gives the writer a place from which to speak. Working with multiple exposures, abstract concepts and materials at hand bring a sense of structure to how I look at the world. I begin my process by approaching the contents of a given day as a subject rather than an object. As if holding on to a knowing glance, a meeting of sorts takes place and what's before me becomes a considered composition. I am not inventing what my eye has not witnessed but sending a note of appreciation for a fragment of the day. Just as how I sometimes startle when coming upon a line in a poem I have read over and over and don't want to forget.
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Silvermine Arts Center