Corinne Bowen

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Artist Statement

Working primarily with analog photography, I explore what I call the sacred ordinary—the way light, texture, and everyday gestures reveal what is waiting to be seen, healed, and understood.

My work is rooted in the belief that a committed creative practice can act as a mirror, inviting me to meet myself with honesty, tenderness, and courage. Each image is an act of presence: a devotional gesture toward what is fleeting, imperfect, or overlooked. Through the inherent slowness and unpredictability of film, I engage the creative process as a form of meditation, welcoming fear and self-doubt as thresholds into deeper awareness.

My photographs witness rather than document. They trace the intimate terrain where emotion, memory, and light converge—the space between the personal and the universal, the visible and the felt. Through this practice, I aim to translate solitude into connection and to remind others (and myself) that ordinary life, when seen with intention, becomes holy.

My current projects explore the interplay of motherhood, recovery, devotion, and creative sovereignty—an ongoing dialogue between art-making and self-remembering.

Bio
I am an artist and writer based in Rochester, New York, working primarily with analog photography to explore the sacred within the ordinary. My practice centers on creative presence—how slowing down, paying attention, and engaging with the world through film can become a mirror for healing and awareness. Through light, texture, and the rhythms of daily life, I translate personal experience into a shared human experience.

With a background in psychology, studio art, and creative direction, I approach photography as both an artistic and spiritual practice—an act of devotion that transforms the familiar into the transcendent. My work has been exhibited in local and online exhibitions, featured in publications such as Create! Magazine and the Kinhouse 2025 Catalog, and shared through my Substack, zines, and print shop.

Through my ongoing projects, writings, and community offerings, I hope to invite others to reclaim art-making as a path toward wholeness, reverence, and remembering.