April S. Hartford

You may be wondering about how I title my images and bodies of work. You may also be wondering about the current images I am releasing Spaces I Walk: In Between. Well I’ll try to explain.

Proserpina is an ongoing body of work with many sub-sections, both current and planned for the future. The original images are simply entitle Proserpina and have no physical human body in them. I didn’t want the body of work to turn into a “Where’s Waldo” search. The second release is all self portraiture, as noted by the subtitle “Proserpina – a self portrait.” I have at least two more distinct sections planned out as of now and those will be noted separately when released in the future (a long ways away.) The original release is noted in roman numerals starting with I or 1. The self-portrait images start at roman numeral CI or 101.

My bodies of work A Quiet Mind and Losing You are not ongoing bodies of work. These works are created based on what I am feeling at a particular point in my life and are from a sigular area geographically. This is the reasoning behind the current new work Spaces I Walk: In Between. You can read more about this particular body of work in a previous post and soon on my website. I will be packaging both A Quiet Mind and Losing You under the Spaces I Walk title along with In Between. I feel this creates an ongoing photographic commentary on how I felt at a specific Space in Time and Place That I Walked during that time. Thus, I now regard this as an ongoing body of work that has a cohesiveness based on what I am trying to say and how I am saying it. These images are all named with their sub-title and a roman numeral starting with I or 1. Thus I have:

Spaces I Walk: A Quiet Mind

Spaces I Walk: Losing You

Spaces I Walk: In Between

As I update my website and books, this will become more apparent and the similarities will become more obvious. Future work will also be added in this section.

Lastly I have my Tusk body of work. It is work in and of itself. I love animals, especially elephants and expect slowly over time to add more to this line of work. I have no plans for adding to it as of now, yet am sure over the years the opportunity will come in some way shape or manor due to my love of the wild and wildlife.

In about a week there will be a new addition to my bodies of work!! It is going to be an ongoing body of work like Proserpina. It will not be tied to a space or time. More will be posted after I release all of the images from Spaces I Walk: In Between. The new body of work is titles Nyx. Nyx is the Greek Goddess of the Night. Stay Tuned!!