Picturing Absence – 3 Photographs in the DAM's Collection

The Denver Art Museum (DAM) highlights three photographs from its collection that explore themes of absence and presence. Yoko Ikeda's 2008 image of a Japanese home threshold captures the unseen inhabitants through details like slippers. Keisha Scarville's "Untitled #17" (2017) uses her mother's clothing to evoke grief and memory after her death. David Maisel's "Library of Dust (267)" (2005) documents corroded copper urns containing cremated remains of unclaimed patients from Oregon State Hospital, revealing unique mineral blooms that symbolize individuality.