Annie Omens: Transcending the Temporal
Exploring my connection with trees was an antidote for the loss of connection I felt with society during the pandemic and lockdown. Being in nature, amongst the trees, helped me transcend this temporal situation of suffering and death. The forest spoke to my soul of a kind of essential stability and permanence allowing me to see life cycle from seedling to fallen tree, renewing itself to support life again. The forest gave me the courage to remember my place in the world and feel grounded in it.
Through the use of photomontage, I layered together two or more of my straight captures to create an ethereal sense of the ordinary. I reveal a mystical connection to something that is more permanent by dissolving boundaries, affirming the unseen, but real, relationship to something beautiful, larger and profound.
Fairy Forest
Me and the Trees
Lines of Connections
Portal
Beauty in the Breakdown
Whirlwind
Primordial Waters
Tree Sisters Oak and Sycamore
River Sprites
Childhood Tree
Skyline
Bio
Annie Omens is a photographic and mixed media artist who explores the natural world with a conscious perception of what is hidden, what is known, and how nature impacts the human psyche. Informed by her interest in shamanism and Celtic lore, Omens uses photomontage to examine the intersection of the real and the dimensional depth of the unseen, mixing modalities and meanings with what is perceived and what might be.
Omens’ education includes studies in photography and art at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, the Savannah College of Art and Design, Marquette University and Mount San Jacinto College in Menifee, CA.
Omens has exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Boston Massachusetts; A Smith Gallery in Johnson City, Texas; the Oceanside Museum of Art; San Diego Art Institute; Galleria 908 in Loreto, Mexico; Pennsylvania Center for Photography; and the Encaustic Art Institute in Santa Fe New Mexico, amongst others. She has received numerous awards and her work is in collections nationally and internationally including at the Encaustic Art Museum.
She lives and works in San Diego, California.