#dedejohnston

Northern Vermont, where artist Dede Johnston grew up, has played a central role in regards to her artistic formation. Alpine landscapes are a central theme in her photographic works that show a fascination with abstract forms created by the light and shadows encompassing the snow covered world.

Johnston’s alpine landscapes reveal an influence from the Eastern aesthetic principle of seeking beauty and mystery in dim light. The different shadows that create soft and delicate forms, in fact, make her alpine landscapes suggestive and mysterious.

Johnston’s photos work as a visual example of Japanese novelist Jun'ichirō Tanizaki’s idea of half-darkness as a site of peace, repose and contemplation where ‘immutable tranquility holds sway’.