Plant Museum Porch with Hands and Flowers

Photograph

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HCC Permanent Art Collection

Name/Title

Plant Museum Porch with Hands and Flowers

Entry/Object ID

2022.4.23

Description

An image of the Henry B. Plant Museum, photo imposed with two disembodied hands holding flowers at bottom center, and three wheelbarrows full of flowers along the porch area to the center right.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Digital

Collection

HCC Permanent Art Collection

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Suzanne Camp Crosby

Role

Artist

Date made

circa 2000 - circa 2005

Location

Category

Exhibit

Category

Storage

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Didactic

Label

Suzanne Camp Crosby (1948-2020) Plant Museum Porch with Hands and Flowers, c. 2000-05 photograph 14 x 11 in. Gift of the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, made possible by Johnnie O. Crosby and Family, 2022.4.11 Suzanne Camp Crosby specialized in creating thematically directed photographs, where she added unexpected objects or people to everyday scenes. In Plant Museum Porch with Hands and Flowers, Victorian-esque cutouts of hands, flowers, and wheelbarrows lead the viewer’s eyes along the porch of the iconic Tampa Bay Hotel, the railroad resort built in 1891 that now houses the Henry B. Plant Museum. As a visual storyteller, Crosby’s works are often playful and witty, enlivening the overlooked or mundane with surprising or poetic juxtapositions. In the artist’s own words: “I believe that the photograph can be a means of awakening personal sensibilities and awarenesses... Ideally the photographic image then becomes a means of sharing individual perception with others.” This work of art is a part of the HCC Permanent Art Collection. The HCC Art Galleries, through their Campus Loan Outreach Program, seek to share original art by collecting a diversity of works for the education and enjoyment of the HCC Community.