At Night Gardens Grow

In the hands of a gifted photographer, their pictures conjure a world different than our own: photographs made in and from our world speak of another world, a world that is different and that, if the intent is artful, is filled with possibilities in a way that this one, the world we inhabit, does not. In the West, such an approach is not part of how the world is being looked at. The world is what it is — what it appears to be, and anything else beyond that is either for children, for dreamers, or for any of those other people who “do not contribute much”. That anything outside of human nature might possess a spirit of any sorts is unthinkable. There only is reality, however poorly defined it actually is, and that’s it. The photographs in Pia Paulina Guilmoth‘s At Night Gardens Grow refuse to engage with that reality that we’re supposed to stick to. You could describe them following any of the standard avenues available in the world of photography — focusing on, say, camera equipment…