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"Let Me Take You Down": Jennifer Ray, Kendra Cremin, and Kelsy Gossett Dennis at WAM

Kelsy Gossett Dennis on photographing the hard parts of motherhood.

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"Let Me Take You Down": Jennifer Ray, Kendra Cremin, and Kelsy Gossett Dennis at WAM
Kelsy Gossett Dennis' "Session 4,673" refers to the number of times she nursed her youngest child. During that two-year period, she photographed her usual view of the basement stairs over and over again using different photographic processes. "This view is forever etched in my mind, while the memories I longed to keep slipped away," Gossett Dennis wrote in the exhibition text. "The stairs became a symbol of both presence and absence, of the disconnection I felt: a literal marker of time suspended."

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“Let Me Take You Down,” an exhibition of works by Jennifer Ray, Kendra Cremin, and Kelsy Gossett Dennis, is on view through August 24 in the Kurdian Gallery at the Wichita Art Museum. The three photographers talked about their work during an event on April 11.

“People talk about these intense feelings of love and overwhelming joy and all the good stuff (about motherhood). And I absolutely did feel those things — and do feel those things. But I wasn't prepared for the hard stuff … this series is about reckoning with and naming the hard stuff.”

— Kelsy Gossett Dennis on "Session 4,673"

The Wichita Art Museum is open to the public from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday and until 9 p.m. on Fridays. Admission is free.

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