ANDIE FRANCOEUR SHOOTS IN A MINOR
[FULL DISCLOSURE: this artist is my lovely wife] Andie Francoeur is a local Seattle song artist who generally errs on the side of the minor keys; it is no surprise, then, that much of her photography falls into a similar tonal range. She brings the same spare intensity to her compositions and subject matter that she pours into her music, albeit with a less specific narrative. The high suicide rate in the Pacific Northwest notwhithstanding, our dreary weather drives artists inward ten months out of the year, figuratively and literally, which can be a creative boon; in Andie’s case, she has chosen to photo-document this process of spiritual hibernation without the attendant sentimentality, investigating the minutiae of our house and yard like David Lynch with his arthroscopic eye. Her interiors and landscapes are abstract paeans to emptiness, to dissipated energy, to the loss of family, to once visible worlds now rendered to ephemeral shells in Ephrata, Moses Lake, Vashon Island, and Seattle (on Minor Avenue, no doubt).
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