Janna Ireland Tender Boughs
The photography of Janna Ireland traverses across history and fiction always arriving somewhere closer to the truth. In Tender Boughs, Ireland perceives her own young children occupying the dappled luminosity of home, whereupon countervailing currents unsettle and undo more thoroughly verdant visions before they are able to bloom.
An apple, a flower, a tree, an orange - children’s toys, a cadence of domestic glimpses accumulate into an encompassing scenography which alternates with laconic coolness and flashes of vernacular radiance. But even as this familial landscape begins to flourish in our minds, unwilling conclusions tumble into view as debris is hurled from a threatening turbulence out of frame - by the very things we most fear will crush our tender boughs.
- John K Chan
