She Shoots Where She's Planted: Rose Burgweger at Homer's Coffee House
"The Way", Photographic Print.
Rose Burgweger
6:30 a.m-10 p.m.
Homer's Coffee House
7126 W. 80th St.
Overland Park, KS
913.381.6022
Hours: 6:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Saturday
Runs through: Nov. 30
Artist's site: http://web.mac.com/rosebuds/iWeb/rmbprints/Welcome.html
Gallery site: http://www.homerscoffeehouse.com
The attachments we hold in long memory are different from those we find later in life.
The latter represent a love of the actual, an affection for the object's own sake -- be it a person, place or thing. That's not to say we can't truly cherish things for themselves over a long time. But often, what we love is more a memory or a feeling than the "real" object.
Rose Burgweger's love for the eastern Kansas countryside didn't take root in her youth. She hadn't even planned to live around here.
My background is in graphic design, where I worked for many years in the Chicago area, Burgweger writes. An unexpected move relocated my family from Illinois to rural Kansas, where I photograph the surrounding scenic area. she writes. As I photograph the same locations, I see how natural light illuminates each place, throughout the various times of the day and seasons.
Much of my photography is done locally, right where God has “planted” me.
The fruits of Burgweger's transplanting to De Soto are on display this month at Homer's Coffee House.
As Homer's is a Christian-themed establishment (though not ostentatiously so), several of Burgweger's pieces are augmented by Scripture references. With or without text, most of them are of things we take for granted: back roads, fenceposts, trees in silhouette against a haze-filtered morning sun. (All three of those elements find their way into The Way, today's featured image.)
And because this is a love of the actual, Burgweger doesn't alter her works.
Burgweger's process of discovery also offers natives and longterm residents a chance to see the familiar through a fresh point of view ... and to love this part of the world for its own sake.
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