Gould's landscape photography showing at Alliance Gallery

NARROWSBURG, N.Y. — An exhibition of landscape photographs by Edith Gould entitled “The Archaeology of Memory” opens at the Alliance Gallery in Narrowsburg, N.Y. on Friday, March 28, with an artist’s reception from 7 - 9 p.m. The exhibit will be on view through Apr. 19. Sigmund Freud likened psychoanalysis to an archaeological dig, saying “The psychoanalyst, like the archaeologist in his excavations, must uncover layer after layer of the patient’s psyche, before coming to the deepest, most valuable treasures.” This observation rings true for photographer and psychoanalyst Edith Gould. “I have always loved archaeology,” says Gould, who has traveled the planet in search of places of ruin to capture haunting black and white images of ancient temples, our now fragile icebergs, shimmering rivers, and old growth trees. “Landscape reflects and mirrors one’s sense of self,” she says. “It evokes private memory and the collective memories of civilization.” But it is the parallel between her art and her clinical practice that most interests her. “As in my analytic explorations with my patients, I use the camera as a probe, to yield up some small element, a visual voice of a culture or an epoch that has disappeared.” Gould, who has studied at the International Center for Photography, as well as privately with a number of well-known photographers such as Mary Ellen Mark, splits her time between New York City and Long Eddy, NY. “I’ve traveled around the world,” she says. “But some of my favorite images were taken in the fields behind my farmhouse in Long Eddy or on the Delaware riverbank in Hankins. This exhibit, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, the Arts Council for Sullivan County, NY, and is made possible in part with funding from the Visual Arts Program of the New York State Council on the Arts.