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September Issue 2006
Hickory Museum of Art in Hickory, NC, Features Works by Jeff Botz
The Hickory Museum of Art in Hickory, NC, will present an insightful Himalayan photography exhibition, Jeff Botz: Everest Not Everest, on view in the Museum's Shuford Gallery from Sept. 2 through Mar. 11, 2007. Botz provides a mystical perspective of one of earth's greatest icons.
Botz, a Charlotte, NC, resident, spent over 150 days in the Everest region of Nepal and Tibet capturing dramatic black and white landscape images using the same equipment and techniques used in the American West; most notably by photographic master Ansel Adams.
The exhibition features not only the world's tallest mountain but many of the area's equally beautiful mountains, glaciers and scenes to give the viewer a feel of the entire region. Botz has designed his Everest Not Everest exhibition as a pilgrimage, starting with the most distant imagery and culminating with photography of the great mountain, itself.
In the West we know this mountain as Everest, although Botz's work emphasizes the mountain's true identity which lies in its older Tibetan name Qomolangma (pronounced, cho-mo-lang-ma), which means Goddess Mother of the World and the Nepali name Sagarmatha, which means The Stick which Churns the Ocean of Existence.
The name Everest, which is the name of the British surveyor who first recorded its height and location in 1865, obscures the true spiritual identity attributed to the mountain by the people who have lived in the area thousands of years and know it best. This exhibition reveals how the Western name change of Everest from Qomolangma and Sagarmatha has altered the perception of this natural wonder of the world, yet not its majesty.
For additional information
check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Museum at
828/327-8576 or at (www.HickoryMuseumofArt.org).
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