Using a large format camera with available light, Mandle compiles 40 color images of confessionals within Catholic churches across America. In illuminating spaces containing moments of grace, Reconciliation offers viewers the opportunity to seek, witness, and contemplate experiences of their own.

In this conversation, S. Billie Mandle discusses, among other things:

Correlations between confessionals and cameras 

Photographers as collectors

Ways we create meaning as individuals and a society

Research impacting and shaping a project

Benefits of a design studio 

Quieting color

Following affinities

Cold emailing for collaborators 

Embodying paradox

Impact of oppressive societal structures 

Referenced in the episode

Stellar Skytron

Night of the Fiestas - Kirsten Valdez Quade

Kehrer Verlag

Everything Studio

Dust Collective

Images As Action and Reflection Panel

Mass Cultural Council Berkshire Taconic Artist Resource Trust Fund

Mass Art

Cabinet

Rebecca Solnit - The Blue of Distance

Cynthia Cruz - Disquieting 

Sovereignty of Quiet - Kevin Everod Quashie

Barbara Bosworth 

The Land in Between - Ursula Schulz-Dornburg

Bluets - Maggie Nelson

The Poetics of Space - Gaston Bachelard 

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

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