Once the Ocean Floor is a group exhibition of photography featuring works by John Chiara, Linda Connor, David Maisel, and Meghann Riepenhoff. Working across a range of photographic processes, these artists foreground the natural world not simply as subject, but as an active force — an agent, collaborator, and historian. Photography becomes a site of encounter where the forces of nature, human intervention, and material processes converge. The exhibition includes Chiara's luminous camera obscura Ilfochrome prints, Connor's series depicting Himalayan terrain once submerged beneath an ancient ocean, Maisel's aerial perspectives on environmental crisis at the Great Salt Lake, and Riepenhoff's cyanotypes created directly within the landscape using light-sensitive materials.
