DEEP BLUE 1996
BY LINDY SCHOENBORN

How do places ground us in times of transition? How do personal memories, while individual to each of us, connect us all? Deep Blue 1996 is a study of how the concept of home shapes our identity.

In the five years photographer Lindy Schoenborn has been a Wilmington resident, she has come to feel at home and connected in ways never experienced before. Schoenborn was originally drawn to the area to be close to the ocean as a result of childhood memories of summers spent at Wrightsville Beach. The images in Deep Blue 1996 represent a time of youth, possibility, and freedom while also acknowledging the feelings of uncertainty that come when considering leaving a place that has become home. The prints are cyanotypes that were rinsed in the Atlantic Ocean at Wrightsville Beach as a way to connect the work she’s produced and the life she’s lived in Wilmington with the body of water that made it possible.

Lindy Schoenborn has been the Resident Artist at Anchorlight Wilmington during its one year run at 1 S. Front St. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina Wilmington and calls Wilmington home, regardless of where her journey takes her. .