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Photos Explore Timelessness in 'Above and Below' at MSU's Clara M. Eagle Gallery

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Photographer Noah Doely's exhibition "Above and Below" shows in Murray State's Clara M. Eagle Gallery through November 7 along with works by Murray's new wood faculty person, Sarah Martin. On Sounds Good, we meet Doely, who teaches photography at the University of Northern Iowa. The images in Eagle Gallery create a scenes of peaceful quiet in its open space. Those which take the viewer into caverns, gazing at light streaming from above, convey timelessness.

"They're images that might at a glance look like natural phenomenon, but they're actually images that I constructed. Basically, the way that I did that is a long process that usually took place over a month or two, where I have a bunch of aquatic rocks that used and I made molds from them, and then I cast the molds and built these dioramas that were then lowered into a glass tank that was then filled with water... The way they were photographed was from shining a light into the back of the diorama to make them look illuminated from the back."

Doely says he uses a pinhole camera that sits in a dark room with the dioramas for one to three days before the images collect on the film for developing and printing.

Photographer Noah Doely's works, in the exhibition titled "Above and Below" are on display in Clara M. Eagle Gallery through November 7, along with works by Murray's new wood faculty member Sarah Martin. Doely visits Murray for a closing reception and gallery talk at a date to be determined. Eagle Gallery is on the sixth floor of the Doyle Fine Arts Building near 15th and Olive. 

More about Noah Doely's work

Matt Markgraf joined the WKMS team as a student in January 2007. He's served in a variety of roles over the years: as News Director March 2016-September 2019 and previously as the New Media & Promotions Coordinator beginning in 2011. Prior to that, he was a graduate and undergraduate assistant. He is currently the host of the international music show Imported on Sunday nights at 10 p.m.
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