Home Slaughter

by Claire Kosky

Sunday, September 14th

3-6PM

Come see a captivating photography show by Rockbridge native, Claire Kosky, a recent Bard College graduate with her BA in photography.

open by appointment afterwards for one week only through September 21st, by emailing info@theworkshopattimberridge.com or koskyclaire@gmail.com

Home Slaughter was photographed in the Hudson Valley on farms where animals are slaughtered by a mobile company on the same land where they were raised. I watched many slaughters. I could never look up when the cow was shot. In that moment, they were dead. Painfully and horrifically so. But afterwards, when the cow is hung from a crane and skinned, her hide falls away. Enveloping her carcass, it pours downwards to resemble a dress embellished by waves of muscle tissue. Home Slaughter emerges from this strange ambiguity, when the body is elevated beyond itself. Images of farmland marked by agriculture, fragments of meat, and human witnesses accumulate into a careful portrayal of a process not often seen.