Gooseberry Falls, may 2018-2019

brighton beach, kitchi gammi, may 2018-2019

by Jes Lee

In these photographs, Jes Lee documented Lake Superior from the same vantage point along the north shore once a month for one year. Each final image is composed of all twelve photographs, each month’s picture printed on top of the months before. Together they create a dreamlike, almost ethereal vision of the lake. As the artist has explained, these images capture “one full year of memories of the water and land.”

Like Lee, several artists featured in Many Waters, including Linda Gammell and Holly Newton Swift (whose works are on view in the larger gallery), return to a specific site over and over again as a central part of their artistic practice.