Maria Scard has been a professional photographer for over 15 years, her passion for photography has taken her to many diverse places, from the slums of Mumbai to the catwalks in Dubai.
Commissioned by local charities and businesses, she has exhibited at the Brighton Dome, Brighton Station, Regency House Gallery in Hove and Brighton Fringe.
Maria travelled to ‘Thin Places’ a Celtic term for locations where it is believed that the veil between the physical and the spiritual is almost transparent. On this journey she often found herself in liminal spaces. ‘Liminal’ comes from the Latin ‘limen,’ meaning threshold, for example where the sky meets the sea.
Working in camera with minimal post production, she aims to give us a glimpse of what she found there. As she waited, watched, and recorded, it was as though each place offered her up a gift.
A glimmer of light, a whisper, a fragility, a strength, a power, a presence and often a peace. Her hope is that these contemporary aesthetic images will engage viewers who approach the work from a place of their own beliefs, as well as those who fear or doubt that there is a spiritual dimension.
Where is the thin place? Is it somewhere? Is it within me? What will I find there? Is it beautiful? Is it full of light? What if the thin place is a dark night? Gentle whisper Hebrew translation ‘kol d’mama daka,’ ‘a sound of thin silence.’
