Unfolding in Light: A Sisters' Journey in Photography and Poetry

A collection of sixty-four black-and-white photographs and sixty-two poems, Unfolding in Light offers a vision of hands as images, symbols, and archetypes, allowing the numinous to shine through the mundane. Sisters Joan Scott and Claire Scott provides an intimate pause that gives the reader a quiet moment to reflect on the meaning of everyday hands: an ill child’s hands; a dying woman’s hands; hands of lovers, young and old; hands at work, at play, in pain, in prayer, and in love.

Joan Scott is a professional photographer whose photographs have been in a number of juried shows, local, national, and international. She has had a solo show in Annapolis, Maryland and has been in three photo exhibits in Quiet Waters Park in Annapolis. Some of her photographs have been selected for a show at the River Gallery in Galesville, Maryland. She lives in Edgewater, Maryland.

Claire Scott is an award-winning poet who has published in Garbanzo, The Healing Muse, Poetry Quarterly, and other literary magazines. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize (2014 and 2015). She was also a semi-finalist for both the 2014 Pangaea Prize and the 2014 Atlantis Award, and a winner of the Arizona State Poetry Society 2013 Annual Poetry Contest. A practicing marriage and family therapist, she lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area.

ISBN: 9781631529450
Format: Hardback
Pages: 180
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: November 17, 2015

“It is always a joy to look through an extensive collection of photographs and see a very high standard set and adhered to . . . These pictures portray the enormous eloquence of the human hand. I was amazed at the range of emotional interaction that can be expressed in an image of a hand and the panoply of relationships that can be communicated . . . A most successful and worthy undertaking.”
—Dick Bond, photographer and astrophysicist

“Your images of the art work are wall hangers. They are wonderfully exposed and composed and well balanced in regards to white balance. Great job.”
—Elliot Stern of Blue Ridge Photography