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Alexa Cushing & DMT

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For this collaboration, we created a call and response using images from our archives. We used elements such as form, shape, texture, composition, and subject matter to inform our response to one another. Both of our work touches upon afterlife and spirituality, so we expanded upon this idea by constructing a conversation taking place between two indiscernible worlds. We allowed the visual differences of our work, one artist working in black and white and the other color, to become the distinct voices within this conversation, building two different realities that were both in communication with one another.

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Alexa Cushing is a photographic artist based in southern Massachusetts. She uses her photographs to explore the mythology of place, creating images that extract a sense of magic from the everyday landscape. Alexa’s work has been a part of several group exhibitions at galleries and institutions such as The Griffin Museum of Photography, Panopticon Gallery, Candela Gallery, and the Oregon Contemporary. Her first solo exhibition was held at Aviary Gallery in the spring of 2019 and featured her project Due West, which examined the mythology of Los Angeles as a dream factory. Alexa’s work has been featured within various independent publications such as Rental Magazine, Incandescent Zine, and Polaris Magazine and online publications such as Lenscratch, Humble Arts, and C-41 Magazine. Alexa holds a BFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

DMT is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist and curator, born in Pretoria, South Africa (1998). A poet and visual artist, DMT specialises in documentary and portrait photography, often drawing from literary, sociological and metaphysical influences. DMT is a member of Through the Lens Collective, a PhMuseum Criticae alum and was a participant of the Emergentes 2023 Portfolio Reviews by Encontros da Imagem. They have been selected for exhibitions and features (Der Greif, Float Photo Magazine, Nowhere Diary), and been published in print and online (Unbroken Journal, International Human Rights Arts Movement, Pearl Press, among others).

Alexa Cushing - www.alexacushing.com
DMT - dmterblanche.com