Flower City Arts Center will host an Opening Reception for Where Turkeys Go to Die by David Corbin, on display through February 25.

Out west from me off a country road is a small turkey farm with a silo and a large pen in the front. There are a few houses scattered about the land surrounding the farm. In autumn you can watch hundreds of white turkeys grow from babies to adults. I watched them every week on my commute to school. One day the turkeys disappeared. I often thought about the day they got to disappearing. I think about the sounds the nearby houses hear. I think about the blood spilled, and the haunting silence the next day — a singular sound (or non-sound) from what was polyphony. These thoughts inspired me to make images about history and experience — experiences dark and beautiful, uplifting and afflicted. I traveled (often trespassed) to forgotten spaces with my 4×5 camera or Polaroid camera to photograph. Many times I teetered, quite literally, between a busy road and a quiet solace. I also made images of objects steeped in the same darkness and beauty as the landscape images.

[source: Flower City Arts Center website, 2018-Jan-8]