Camera Lyrica navigates the intersection between realism and naturalism, locating moment by moment–the only way it can–the artful, necessary, and always mysterious transformation that occurs between the perceiver and perceived. Amy Newman’s subjects range from Audubon’s drive for precision, Michelangelo’s unfinished Pieta, Darwin and forty-year old Barbie, to a meditation on the diversity of Type itself. With grace and dexterity, her intelligent eye dips into Catholic Mysteries, and the quiet but momentous domesticity of a backyard quince tree. Hers is a language both lush and spare, as she filters it and the world through a lucid imagination, transforming both into something beautiful, challenging, and wholly new.