• Visual Noise & Career News

    Visual Noise & Career News

    Career news: After 11 years at James Madison University, I am leaving to become Waynesboro Public Library’s Digital Services Librarian. This is an achievement that has far greater impact internally than professionally. Professionally it is a big leap forward. The title “Librarian” is a title often gate-kept in the US behind a graduate degree, I…

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  • Triptych #15

    Triptych #15

    Triptych #15 Last winter I found myself paying attention to the downed trees that I’d normally look past. While I’ve done a lot of photo work using fallen trees, I purposefully avoided any that were obviously felled. That decision was two fold: 1) Decaying trees that have fallen naturally do decay differently. 2) It felt…

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  • Things are different now

    Things are different now

    Triptych #007 Creativity on the Wane I feel like my creative powers have waned recently. It is hard to swallow, but the reality is that the past two years were a massive aberration. The kind of creative whirlwind that if I were to chase it would have me go the way of Jacks Kerouac and…

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  • Shadow and Intention

    Shadow and Intention

    Shadow Work Writing, in the Creative Process When I started this new blog, I wanted my first post to serve as a thesis statement—something that projected forward. For my second, I felt compelled to revisit the last blog post from my previous website. That post is both the reason I stopped writing and the reason…

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  • Introduction to Wynn’s Blog

    Introduction to Wynn’s Blog

    Not just photography: I am Wynn Culbertson (she/they), and I have a messy life. Over the years, I’ve been an artist, activist, teacher, writer, musician, craftsman, blue-collar laborer, and spiritual seeker. I’ve worked as an audio engineer, a laboratory technician, a library specialist, and in special education. I’ve marched for civil rights, taught wilderness survival,…

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